By failing to push their galumphing antihero toward the self-knowledge he so desperately needs, [the directors] rob the film of its emotional stakes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 11, 2013

There's much to like here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2013

A barbed indie character study that seems perched, like Big Fan, between dark humor and probing psychodrama.

| Original Score: B | Oct 10, 2013

Zero Charisma is a comedy by classification, but its cruelties have a way of turning it into a psychodrama inadvertently. The tone is often as abrasive as its hero.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 10, 2013

A fascinating portrait of an initially stereotypical mouth-breathing man-child addicted to role-playing games of his own invention.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 9, 2013

A consistently entertaining, character-driven comedy set within a community rapidly losing out to online options.

| Oct 8, 2013

It stops short of leaving its would-be hero in despair, but never finds a reason for those who don't share his fixations to identify with him.

| Oct 8, 2013

This is raw and affecting, a real movie rather than fan-con fun.

| Oct 8, 2013

It's a pity that it hews to sitcom-like formula rather than using this bank of knowledge and sympathy to create something more original.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 7, 2013

This film comes from a place that is, perhaps to the creators' consternation, legit.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 16, 2013

Does for pop culture dorks what Big Fan did for sports obsessives: examines their passion with equal amounts of empathy and satire.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 15, 2013