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The Company You Keep (2013)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 17

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A wanted man and former member of the revolutionary militant group the Weather Underground goes on the run after a journalist (Shia LaBeouf) outs him in this political thriller based on Neil Gordon's novel. Robert Redford stars and directs this Voltage Pictures/Wildwood Enterprises production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

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Mystery & Suspense

Lem Dobbs

$3.4M

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All Critics (104) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (56) | Rotten (48)

You can't help but applaud the effort, even as it falls short.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
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Redford the director keeps things moving smoothly, avoiding too many lengthy monologues while still getting the point across ...

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Detroit News
Detroit News
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A drama that's more than a look at what happened to a generation of socially aware hippies whose new drug of choice is likely Lipitor.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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What gets revealed should rattle, but it doesn't.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Denver Post
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You wish the movie were a little snappier, but Redford doesn't do snap; slow down with it, and enjoy the chase.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
Seattle Times
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Directed in steady fashion by Redford, The Company You Keep manages to keep its multiple strands of plot - and the people caught in them - from collapsing in a jumble of confusion.

April 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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[Director Robert Redford] deftly articulates the moral morass that can arise when idealism gives way to reality; he also has some very definite things to say about the way today's sensation-hungry, click-addicted media operates.

May 4, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW

Talk about timing. Whether it's good or bad remains to be seen.

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Dreadfully near-catatonic pace that never makes you feel like there's much at stake.

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Flicks.co.nz
Flicks.co.nz

At the very least, this generation proves that they still have compelling stories to tell. (Complete Content Details for Parents also available)

May 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Screen It!
Screen It!

Things come together satisfyingly at the end, but by then the urge to jump out of one's theater seat has been in effect for at least 45 minutes.

May 1, 2013 Full Review Source: AspectRatio.us
AspectRatio.us

A tougher work might have seemed provocatively relevant in the tragic context of current events, but this film has a muted nostalgia for the days when bomb-tossing students had easy-to-pronounce names and might grow up to be as cleancut as Robert Redford.

April 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

An old-fashioned political drama that's well-intentioned and heartfelt.

April 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Clearly, Redford has no trouble drawing talent; if he's ever interested in remaking Meteor or Midnight in Paris, he's halfway there.

April 27, 2013 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing
Creative Loafing

Robert Redford -- who once was an active liberal -- is now a tired capitalist. He's also a worn-out egotist.

April 27, 2013 Full Review Source: tonymacklin.net
tonymacklin.net

[Redford] still manages to tell an interesting story of family painted against a political backdrop. It's not going to spark any great movements, but it is worth a sit in at the local theater.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee

Redford's direction feels tighter and and less ruminative than it has in years, and his acting is still marked by a kind of intelligent alertness.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

No matter how much slack you cut it, The Company You Keep never quite lives up to expectation.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Canada.com
Canada.com

This chase film combines elements of the thriller and newspaper procedural to create a contemporary saga about political idealism, stone-cold realities, and the repercussions of past deeds on future innocents.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle

The acting company Robert Redford keeps in The Company You Keep doesn't get any better. Movies rarely do either.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Tri-City Herald
Tri-City Herald

What with a cast that includes Robert Redford, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, and Susan Sarandon, this might've been the most star-studded production of the year had it been made in 1975.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: The Grid
The Grid

It tends to sag a touch in its third act, but it's a solidly engaging thriller thanks mostly to its ridiculously talented cast.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune

Although the movie is structured as a thriller, there's no urgency or suspense.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Las Vegas Weekly
Las Vegas Weekly

Whether RR's too old, as many have suggested, for the more thriller-ish elements here, there's no doubt that he's very fine and still seriously charismatic, and that Lem Dobbs' screenplay tackles weighty issues in a compellingly 'grey area' fashion.

April 26, 2013 Full Review Source: Rip It Up

Audience Reviews for The Company You Keep

Idea behind this film is very captivating and the screenplay by Lem Dobbs sparkles with well written dialogue. Unfortunately director/actor Robert Redford turns this material into lifeless and flat film which does have so much potential but zero ambition. If there is something which this film would needed is a tighter pace and more energy. Now everything is turned into minimum and overall effect feels too bland.

With a cast this good it almost feels that you cannot go wrong but Redford has actors like Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Sam Shepard, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper and Richard Jenkins popping up in a certain order and they only end up being more distracting than serving the story. It all becomes like a bad joke where you try to guess which actor is going to show up next and how much screentime he or she is going to get.

Generally i like these kind of investigation thrillers with political undertones. The Company You Keep has something to say about politics and it has chase scenes. It is just that the tension is nowhere to be found and the political tones feel pointless. Even the score by Cliff Martinez felt oddly average which is something rare. Redford's film does find it's rhytm in the final third when fugitive Jim Grant, played by Redford himself, arrives in the remote cabin deep in the woods, but this section in film comes too late and cannot take away the fact that everything before it has been just below average TV-thriller stuff. This could have been something much more than it actually is. I rank this one as a missed opportunity.
April 16, 2013
emilkakko

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Not a great film, but a reasonably engaging thriller that wrestles with the legacy of radical movements such as the Weather Underground.
April 14, 2013
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