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Charlie Says approaches its infamous subject from a welcome new angle, but suffers from a disappointing lack of depth in its treatment of the story.
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If nothing else, Charlie Says puts Van Houten in the center of her own story. Look at her game, girl. May 11, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
If nothing else, Charlie Says puts Van Houten in the center of her own story. Look at her game, girl.
David Fear
While well-intentioned and thoughtful, "Charlie Says" is too ambivalent and too safe to deliver much in the way of original insight. May 10, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
While well-intentioned and thoughtful, "Charlie Says" is too ambivalent and too safe to deliver much in the way of original insight.
Richard Roeper
A fascinating and feminist exploration of Manson's first victims: the girls themselves. May 10, 2019 | Full Review…
A fascinating and feminist exploration of Manson's first victims: the girls themselves.
Katie Walsh
You want to see how a person could surrender herself - her self - to something so diabolical, which demands a higher level of insanity than the filmmakers can muster. May 10, 2019 | Full Review…
You want to see how a person could surrender herself - her self - to something so diabolical, which demands a higher level of insanity than the filmmakers can muster.
David Edelstein
There's just not enough to Charlie Says, an ambitious, but uneven drama about the oft-sensationalized 'Manson Girls.' May 10, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
There's just not enough to Charlie Says, an ambitious, but uneven drama about the oft-sensationalized 'Manson Girls.'
Simon Abrams
Suffering through what Charlie says again, without purpose, is unfair punishment, if you ask me. May 10, 2019 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Suffering through what Charlie says again, without purpose, is unfair punishment, if you ask me.
Rex Reed
Charlie Says is a film about female solidarity in even the harshest circumstances, rather than yet another take on the Charles Manson story. Sep 25, 2019 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Charlie Says is a film about female solidarity in even the harshest circumstances, rather than yet another take on the Charles Manson story.
Joey Keogh
Charlie Says, for all of its noble intentions, has the spirit and nods towards similar territory as Helter Skelter or The Manson Family but, whether due to restraint, interference or whatever, just never quite gets there. Sep 3, 2019 | Full Review…
Charlie Says, for all of its noble intentions, has the spirit and nods towards similar territory as Helter Skelter or The Manson Family but, whether due to restraint, interference or whatever, just never quite gets there.
Chris Ward
Looking at the women looking at Charles Manson, "Charlie Says" is a frustrating watch that never really reveals why they did what they did. Murray and Wever are terrific though, and Harron nails that end-of-decade twisting of idealism and optimism. Jul 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Looking at the women looking at Charles Manson, "Charlie Says" is a frustrating watch that never really reveals why they did what they did. Murray and Wever are terrific though, and Harron nails that end-of-decade twisting of idealism and optimism.
Sarah Cartland
Harron and Turner are making a wider point about the nature of demagoguery and the willingness of people to be led. It's easy to look back with fifty years of hindsight and realise little has changed. Jul 29, 2019 | Rating: 3 | Full Review…
Harron and Turner are making a wider point about the nature of demagoguery and the willingness of people to be led. It's easy to look back with fifty years of hindsight and realise little has changed.
Kevin Wight
The cultural weight of the Manson Family Murders...will always be a tough, almost unexplainable mindset to recreate and explain from both the women and Manson himself, but Harron is adept at turning the tables to present a fresh and feminist perspective. Jul 25, 2019 | Full Review…
The cultural weight of the Manson Family Murders...will always be a tough, almost unexplainable mindset to recreate and explain from both the women and Manson himself, but Harron is adept at turning the tables to present a fresh and feminist perspective.
Chloe Leeson
Although uncomfortably lurid in places, the film stops short of the full-on exploitative treatment it could have warranted. Jul 22, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Although uncomfortably lurid in places, the film stops short of the full-on exploitative treatment it could have warranted.
Jamie Healy
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