48
Metascore
42 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe Counselor achieves the almost unheard-of daily double of giving us the most outrageous sex scene of the year AND the most unforgettably brutal murder of the year. This is a badass journey from start to finish.
- 70The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasMcCarthy’s voice comes through strongly enough to excuse the film’s excesses and cast its more generic plot elements in a new light.
- 68Film.comFilm.comA darkly tense drama that rarely hits anything resembling an emotional beat.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovFassbender, though, gets the kudos (again) as the man who has everything but loses it all – thanks partly to a slyly cast Bruno Ganz (Wings of Desire) and, more important, to the character’s moral compass that points wherever he feels it should, until, of course, it points due south of heaven.
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe film doesn't temper enough of Cormac McCarthy's excesses, but Ridley Scott and his ensemble find enough meat in his scenario to make for diverting, bloody pleasure.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDespite its scaldingly hot cast and formidable writer/director combination, The Counselor is simply not a very likable or gratifying film. In fact, it's a bummer.
- 30VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe script is nearly all dialogue, including several eloquent spoken passages toward the end, but it’s a lousy story, ineptly constructed and rendered far too difficult to follow.