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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.

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

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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 18

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 davidehrlich ★★ 10

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 🎃 Steve of the Dead 🎃 ★★★★ 23

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 Marian ★★½ 3

if ben affleck was so smart he wouldn't have cheated on amy dunne

Recent reviews

Review by dré ★★½

"Ziemlich durchschnittlicher Actionthriller der sich ganz schön Zeit nimmt bis zur Action und insgesamt sehr viel knackiger und nicht so pseudogewichtig erzählt sein dürfte. Aber war schon schlimmer unterhalten."
Review by cuddywifter ★★★★

While the critics seem strangely divided on this film, I found it absorbing for some reason. Maybe I’m drawn to the savant trope, or that it was an interesting hybrid of that and the lone, highly trained warrior a la The Equalizer. Quite enjoyed it in any case.
Review by Michael MacNeill ★★★

Super weird mish-mash of ideas going on here. Feels like mad-libs were used to create the concept of a military-trained autistic man who is accountant for drug-lords but also unravels corporate espionage.
Review by Filmfreund1988 ★★★★½

Bärenstarker Actionthriller mit einem tollen Cast. Allen voran Bem Affleck weiß in dieser Rolle zu überzeugen. Die Action wirkt handgemacht und sieht in jedem Moment wertig aus. Die Geschichte hat mich bis zum Schluss gefesselt und ich wollte gar nicht, dass der Film endet. Einfach toll. Einer meiner Favoriten aus 2016.
Review by Sylvia Robbane ★

I wish being an accountant was half as exhilarating as this movie
Review by Volker Mantel ★★★½

Nice action movie with a goofy premise but mostly satifiying execution.
Review by Chris Stuckmann ★★★★

Movies like The Accountant are a rare breed these days. Here we have an action/thriller with an uncommonly complex narrative that requires close attentiveness. How refreshing.
Review by CorneliusTeunis ★★★½

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall during this pitch.
Review by Hannah VanderKuy ★★★★

Probably the best action/spy movie I've seen all year tbh