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

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 9, 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

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

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

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

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

The result is a film so personal you watch transfixed, caught up in a life that is constantly enthralling, with a universal appeal that extends beyond the exclusive Hills of Beverly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2016

Like most family affairs, the film isn't perfect but it is memorable, and provides a passable high when it is over-one that you haven't felt from a Rob Reiner production in ages.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 6, 2016

Despite its addiction to cliches, by the time Being Charlie ends it's a little bit emotional, thanks a great deal to Robinson's performance.

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

Being Charlie follows the expected sine-wave trajectory for a movie about addiction recovery, getting worse before things get better. But it does its business with a refreshing, naked honesty.

| May 5, 2016

When Charlie inevitably relapses and trolls Los Angeles's meaner streets for a fix, you feel little sympathy for a character so shallow he seems incapable of introspection.

| May 5, 2016

Good intentions aside, it fails to resonate, though there is a certain voyeuristic intrigue to attempting to figure out how much of this toxic stuff is drawn from the real Reiners.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2016

a well-meaning study of addiction that hits too many banal beats to snap us to attention.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 5, 2016

The movie has a core of rueful sincerity that's frequently affecting, and a spiky sense of humor that's been missing from Reiner's movies for ages.

| Original Score: B- | May 5, 2016

It is abundantly clear that this is a heartfelt, cathartic project for the group, but unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean it'll touch outsiders as well.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2016

Honesty and good intentions don't compensate for the mediocrity of the work.

| May 3, 2016

Rob Reiner's redemption, and his best film in more than 20 years, comes from a deeply personal place.

| Original Score: B | May 2, 2016

Most of the film's characters are unconvincing, flattened out by Charlie's self-focused lens.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 2, 2016