The Counselor

Name: The Counselor
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016-09-14
Rating: 8.2

Drama11m

🍅34%

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34%

Tomatometer

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24%

Popcornmeter

8.2

TMDB

Storyline

At a crisis center in late 1971, a freshly minted counselor on the late shift takes his first call: a suicidal teenager whose parents won't let her come home for Christmas. The call exposes truths about each that lead to a surprising conclusion.

Details

DirectorGuy Bauer

ReleasedSep 14, 2016

StatusReleased

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

4 fresh · 3 rotten

Critics consensus

“The Counselor raises expectations with its talented cast and creative crew -- then subverts them with a wordy and clumsy suspense thriller that's mercilessly short on suspense or thrills.”

34% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

RTmetro.co.ukSep 6, 2017

It's like watching a movie in another language.

Alissa Wilkinson

RTChristianity TodayApr 13, 2016

[McCarthy] reminds us (with a particularly American sensibility) that this world is broken and tragic and not fair, and that pushing past that fact too fast is an error we can't afford to make, for the good of our souls.

Wesley Morris

RTGrantlandDec 10, 2013

It's filthy, nasty, sexy, absurd, appalling, and exhilarating, and it succeeds as a musky union of novelist Cormac McCarthy's bleakness and Ridley Scott's sense of chic.

Matt Oakes

RTSilver Screen Riot3 days ago

With a little more polish and another couple edits, this could have been as solid gold as the cap on Cameron Diaz's canine.