The Accountant is messier than its multitude of gunshot wounds to the head.

| Nov 20, 2017

Unfortunately this one runs out of steam and becomes more of a shoot now, ask questions later (or never) flick.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 14, 2016

At least, in its determinedly populist way, this violent character study makes you think.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 9, 2016

Hopefully the inevitable sequel will plug some of the plot holes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2016

The dubious composition of Affleck's character leaves a foul taste in the mouth.

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

A fantastically convoluted, over-extended but watchable action thriller whose many dangling loose ends, subplots and side characters are finally tied up with a showy flourish.

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

The Accountant boasts an appealing central performance from the redoubtable Ben Affleck, but is elsewhere lumbered with sluggish pacing, a surfeit of narrative detail, implausible coincidences, [and] tension-deflating flashbacks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2016

The one equation it never manages to balance is the one that says making a film about Asperger's Syndrome being more or less a superpower equals a rip-roaring and completely non-problematic jape.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2016

This cast deserves better than a faux-'70s action thriller. Tedious and forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2016

Sadly, Kendrick has little to do in the film's second half, which gets bogged down in a pointlessly complicated plot, much of it relayed in an especially clumsy flashback just before the climax.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 2, 2016

The result is a film that, in spite of its title, simply doesn't add up properly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2016

Perhaps its worst violation, in a deluge of cinematic crimes, is the so-called twist, obvious about an hour before it's finally confirmed with an exasperated "ugh, finally, is it over yet?"

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 1, 2016

[I] enjoyed almost every single second even in the face of unparalleled ridiculousness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2016

The Accountant is, begrudgingly, a pretty good time, especially once its solemnity gives way to its kitschy ode to familial pain.

| Oct 19, 2016

The movie isn't some wicked subversion suggesting that the world is so corrupt that the bad guys are really the good guys. Rather it's a movie that can't figure out what might constitute a good or a bad guy in the first place.

| Oct 17, 2016

Piles up plotlines like an overbuilt house of cards that comes crashing down at the first well-earned guffaw of ridicule.

| Oct 17, 2016

The Accountant should be a straight-ahead thriller, but the film keeps tripping over its own incompetent feet. Maybe it was made for adults, but it sure doesn't feel like it was made by them.

| Original Score: C | Oct 16, 2016

A movie so clear-eyed in its singular, stupid vision, I honestly can't believe it made it all the way from the page to the screen, with a real director and major studio attached. It's a strange kind of shrug-worthy miracle.

| Oct 15, 2016

Affleck plays a math wiz whose position on the autism spectrum allegedly makes him a perfect assassin. That notion is offensive on so many levels, especially in the service of such low-grade crime fiction, that it's painful to watch.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 15, 2016

The Accountant is laughable, but when you're not laughing at it, you're laughing with it. It's enjoyable enough.

| Oct 14, 2016