The Company You Keep (2013)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 48
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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
Cast
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Robert Redford
Jim Grant -
Shia LaBeouf
Ben Shepard -
Julie Christie
Mimi Lurie -
Susan Sarandon
Sharon Solarz -
Nick Nolte
Donal Fitzgerald -
Chris Cooper
Daniel Sloan -
Terrence Howard
FBI Agent Cornelius -
Stanley Tucci
Ray Fuller -
Richard Jenkins
Jed Lewis -
Brendan Gleeson
Henry Osborne -
Brit Marling
Rebecca Osborne -
Sam Elliott
Mac Mcleod -
Stephen Root
Billy Cusimano -
Jackie Evancho
Isabel Grant
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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.
Top CriticRedford the director keeps things moving smoothly, avoiding too many lengthy monologues while still getting the point across ...
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.
What gets revealed should rattle, but it doesn't.
You wish the movie were a little snappier, but Redford doesn't do snap; slow down with it, and enjoy the chase.
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.
[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.
Talk about timing. Whether it's good or bad remains to be seen.
Dreadfully near-catatonic pace that never makes you feel like there's much at stake.
At the very least, this generation proves that they still have compelling stories to tell. (Complete Content Details for Parents also available)
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.
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.
An old-fashioned political drama that's well-intentioned and heartfelt.
Clearly, Redford has no trouble drawing talent; if he's ever interested in remaking Meteor or Midnight in Paris, he's halfway there.
Robert Redford -- who once was an active liberal -- is now a tired capitalist. He's also a worn-out egotist.
[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.
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.
No matter how much slack you cut it, The Company You Keep never quite lives up to expectation.
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.
The acting company Robert Redford keeps in The Company You Keep doesn't get any better. Movies rarely do either.
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.
It tends to sag a touch in its third act, but it's a solidly engaging thriller thanks mostly to its ridiculously talented cast.
Although the movie is structured as a thriller, there's no urgency or suspense.
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.
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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.