Being Charlie, despite having its heart in the right place, just isn't that movie.

| Jan 6, 2021

"Being Charlie" tries to cover several aspects...but the lines are not connected enough for it to have any kind of substantial emotional effect on the audience.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Competent yet perpetually uninvolving...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 27, 2018

Too often lately Robinson has been the best part of meh movies.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

Yes, there's hugging at the end, but there's also no sugarcoating the truth about drugs.

| Jan 2, 2017

A well-crafted work that features a powerful performance by former child actor Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Being Charlie is far too predictable, relying too often on all-too-familiar drug-story tropes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2016

You might even want to forgive the many times it goes off the rails, falling back on the stock cliches it seemed too cool to perpetuate.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2016

Mature depiction of young, self-defeating addict.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2016

When it's merely observing, Being Charlie refuses to offer simple answers. [The] subplots do just the opposite.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2016

Well-intended and capably made, I suspect that "Being Charlie" will find utility in rehab circles.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 13, 2016

"Being Charlie" is saved by Nick Robinson's natural and appealing performance in the lead role..

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 12, 2016

Better remembered as the vehicle to healing for the family than a movie that made an impact.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2016

Nothing in Rob Reiner's well-intentioned, cautionary domestic drug drama feels authentic, genuine or sincere.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 12, 2016

The film's great disappointment: that something so clearly conceived in earnestness and from real-life, first-person experience ends up feeling, well, kinda fake.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2016

Being Charlie wants to make one addict's problems at once light and substantial but fails by confusing these two conflicting approaches.

| May 12, 2016

There's something admirable about the fact that "Being Charlie" exists at all. It's a testament to Nick Reiner's survival. That doesn't mean it's a great movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2016

In the end, "Being Charlie" feels like a first draft of a story that's still in progress.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2016

Even as enlightenment occurs, Charlie is still mostly a guy you want to punch in the face.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2016

Complete with a long, pensive walk along the oceanfront, the film falls into well-worn devices found in many coming-of-age stories, but it's not without charmed performances.

| Original Score: C+ | May 11, 2016

I respect that this was a personal passion project for Reiner, and that he says it helped him better understand his son. Sadly, that has not translated into a good movie.

| May 9, 2016