The Accountant

2016 Directed by Gavin O'Connor

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As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

John Lithgow Anna Kendrick J.K. Simmons Jeffrey Tambor Ben Affleck Jon Bernthal Cynthia Addai-Robinson Jean Smart Andy Umberger Alison Wright Daeg Faerch Inder Kumar Michael Beasley Seth Lee Jade Halley Bartlett

Alternative Titles

Le comptable - The Accountant Mr Wolf - FR 2016, Ro'eh ha'kheshbon, פשע מחושב, The Consultant, Contabilul

crime drama thriller

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Popular reviews

Review by Matt Singer ★★★ 26

Not terrible, but I would have liked it better if he had used more accounting-related puns when he killed people. “You know what I’m about to depreciate? Your life.” <BOOM>
Full review at ScreenCrush.
Review by Ava Davis ★★★½ 21

This is a movie for DADS all around the world take your FATHER to go see this and he'll have a GREAT DAD TIME.
Review by matt lynch ★★★ 4

BAD WILL HUNTING
Review by Steve G 🐝 ★★★★ 22

Judging by some of the reviews floating around for The Accountant, as the father of two autistic children it looks as though I'm supposed to be offended and / or horrified by this film.
The presentation of Ben Affleck's crack accountant / lethal weapon as an autistic superhero has apparently not sat well with a few people. But if you're coming into a Hollywood blockbuster expecting it to be a sensitive portrayal of the disorder, then you're looking in all the wrong places.
Indeed, to counter some of the inevitable outrage (which hasn't been widespread, in fairness), I'd say it's somewhat incorrect to completely dismiss a lot of the acts that Affleck portrays in this film as being completely unrealistic…
Review by davidehrlich ★★ 9

For all the talk of sequels, reboots, and live-action remakes, it can be comforting to be confronted with the occasional reminder that Hollywood is still capable of surprising us. Case in point: “The Accountant,” a new Warner Bros. action movie in which Ben Affleck plays an ass-kicking autistic man who travels the globe under a series of aliases and performs elite maths for some of the world’s most dangerous people. This is a real thing starring real people and made with real money (although not very much of it, as the film’s $40 million budget pales in comparison to the $175 million that the same studio recently spent on the production of “Suicide Squad”).
And though — or perhaps because…
Review by Marian ★★½ 3

if ben affleck was so smart he wouldn't have cheated on amy dunne
Review by George Clark™️ ★★★½ 2

2016 Releases Ranked-HERE
The Accountant is a 2016 action-thriller directed by Gavin O'Connor and staring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal and Cynthia Addai-Robinson. The story follows Christian Wolff played by Ben Affleck as he decodes the books of criminal and terrorist organizations around the world whilst uncovering an embezzlement plot in a robotics company. On a $44 million budget, The Accountant grossed $155.2 million worldwide and has a Rotten Tomato critic score of 52% and an audience score of 76%.
For me, Gavin O'Connor is one of those directors I love to watch. His previous film "Warrior" was one of the best films of the last decade and his new film "The Way Back" is currently…
Review by Wood ★★★★

This is the best autistic superhero Ben Affleck has played this year.
Review by josh lewis ★★★ 5

not quite the trashterpiece i was hoping for but idk this muscular, 90s crime pulp Michael Clayton did it for me. o'connor and mcgarvey are lean & assured, affleck is strangely nuanced, and its take on autism and familial failure is surprisingly sensitive (?). haven't yet figured out if the climactic ~twist~ is moronic or genius but my guess is it's probably both.
Review by katie ★★★★½

JON BERNTHAL 💦😫 FUCK 💯💦 ME
Review by Ade Setiawan ★★★½ 13

Okay Benjy Nerdy you and your kind-hearted Dad surprised me h0e. Great job hunkie ✊

Idk why the critics couldn't understand this movie all that well. I legitimately enjoyed this movie as well. Hbu peeps?
You're different. Sooner or later, "different" scares people.
Review by Jared ★★★★ 2

A perfectly measured amount of sincerity, sensitivity, muscle and awareness make The Accountant a blast of a film, with a real standout performance from the eternally underappreciated Affleck at it's center. Gavin O'Connor clearly knows how to make an entertaining flick, and it's stellar cast only made him better. Awesome stuff that is really presented perfectly.
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Recent reviews

Review by aunrea ★★★½

The autism representation appeared real, but how he was treated by his father was horrific. I have not much else to say about this film.
Review by IgnoreTheNoise ★★½

On the surface this is a pretty fun movie, but the more I think about it the less I liked it - weak plot, characters and less than the sum of its parts.
Review by Yaron ★★½

Ben Affleck shines but the movie is so poorly written, that it´s get´s really boring and mediocre.
Review by Matt McGrath ★★

so hungover i was barely even paying attention, but all of ben's acting choices were hilarious.
i was an accountant for 3 months and found the exciting montage of him writing numbers on the wall to be true cinema
Review by Willy138 ★★★½

This is really bad but god😭 low key love it
The action sequences are so competently made BUT they’re also pretty unique they’re a lot of fun to watch
Almost every scene in the 2nd half will make you be like🙄🙄🙄 but then it goes and has a happy ending!! 10/10
Review by sheissix ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Not sure if this is truly what ASD can do to a person, but hey, Ben Affleck doing action scenes not as Batman? Sign. Me. Up.
Review by bcbobby12 ★★★★

Superb action sequences and a smart script make this a winner. The twists and turns are not telegraphed and the resolution is cool.
Review by Sasha Makarewicz

This was on after I saw 71 and this can't be real. Jeffrey Tambor is in his Arrested Development costume.
Review by Leigh cheri🍒 ★★★

subway
Review by mckeeverbitch69 ★★★★½

Great coming of age tale about a man struggling with a mental disability finding a role in the working world and finding true friendship along the way!
Review by KartoffelBasis ★★★★

Cool plot twist in the end
Review by WS3316 ★★★★

Hey, this movie is actually really cool.