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Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, The (15)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.


The critical consensus

This is one film that needs to go straight back to the drawing board.

**(*)(*)(*)James Mottram, The List, 20/01/2014

This is empty, ugly and pretentious.

**(*)(*)(*)James Mottram, Total Film, 10/02/2014

A caper thriller that's sufficiently zippy to hold the attention. LaBeouf's current notoriety adds extra piquancy to those urban fight scenes.

***(*)(*)Damon Wise, Empire Online, 10/02/2014

A tedious film; its death seems necessary, even merciful.

**(*)(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 27/10/2014

There's quirky, and then there's straight-up annoying.

**(*)(*)(*)Adam Woodward, Little White Lies, 30/10/2014

This is a weird and self-indulgent affair that is easy to mock but that, just occasionally, captures the romantic feel of the equally pretentious but magical Leos Carax films of the late 1980s.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 30/10/2014

Shia LaBeouf’s latest thriller is full of terrible accents, scary foreigners and absolutely nothing enjoyable whatsoever.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 30/10/2014

An eccentric, energetic muddle of a film that is badly overcooked by commercials director Fredrik Bond.

**(*)(*)(*)Allan Hunter, The List, 31/10/2014

Shia LaBeouf preens his way through this poor, Bucharest-set thriller to no avail.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Jonathan Romney, The Observer, 02/11/2014

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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