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The Caller (2009)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:4
Rotten:13
Average Rating:4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Feb 13, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Director Richard Ledes’ latest film, The Caller, finds Jimmy Stevens (Frank Langella), a senior VP at an international energy firm, blowing the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices... [More]
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Reviews for The Caller
1 - 17 (sorted by critic A-Z)
Here's a quiet lion..read on->
04/27/09
Here's a quiet lion..read on->
04/27/09
Painfully obvious where this film is going after just ten minutes. Poorly written, poorly conceived.
07/16/09
Sadly, The Caller, the second feature from director Richard Ledes, doesn't allow its leading men the luxury of their legacies, instead forcing a wan quasi-thriller in the space where a laidback character study should be.
02/09/09
A tender evocation of youth that turns ponderous as it crawls towards a company's revenge on one of its executives.
10/18/08
Frank Langella and Elliot Gould lend gravitas to this enigmatic cat-and-mouse game which unfolds far too slowly with not enough of a dramatic payoff.
02/05/09
We're left to wonder why we're watching Gould scramble for clues to a mystery we've been given the solution to.
02/10/09
Top CriticA corporate crime drama that runs fatally amok.
02/13/09
Top CriticVery few actors have the ability to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and almost have you completely forget you're interacting with pork product. Frank Langella is one of these.
02/03/09
There’s a vaguely appealing elegance to the way the film moves -- that is, when the actors stop spouting laughably portentous dialogue long enough for one to appreciate the film’s pacing.
02/11/09
IF Frank Langella hadn't received an Oscar nomination for "Frost/Nixon," it's pretty doubtful that an opaque oddity like Richard Ledes' The Caller would have managed even a one-week vanity booking at the Quad.
02/13/09
Top CriticMultinational corporate terrorism as narrative second fiddle to mock sleuthing around via poetry and existential sweet nothings dropped into a voice concealment cell phone device. The Caller: Dial-up assisted suicide by gumshoe.
02/03/09
The Caller is a loopy, talky, 92-minute two-hander with Elliott Gould and Frank Langella (on a downward spiral following his juicy triumph in Frost/Nixon), written and directed by a force to forget called Richard Ledes.
02/11/09
Top CriticFrank Langella's note-perfect, tour-de-force turn as a man elegantly shaping his own demise is nicely counterpointed by a shambling Elliott Gould as a bird-watching private eye.
05/06/08
Top CriticClose but no cigar as a great international corporate mystery thriller slows to a crawl in a drawn out study of death. Frank Langella and Elliott Gould should have been used better.
05/10/08
Director Richard Leder was lucky enough to land actors of the caliber of Oscar-nominees Elliot Gould and Frank Langella only to squander their collective talents in service of a tedious yawner.
02/12/09
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