Affleck plays a math wiz whose position on the autism spectrum allegedly makes him a perfect assassin. That notion is offensive on so many levels, especially in the service of such low-grade crime fiction, that it's painful to watch.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
15 Oct 2016
rotten:
The Accountant should be a straight-ahead thriller, but the film keeps tripping over its own incompetent feet. Maybe it was made for adults, but it sure doesn't feel like it was made by them.
– Will Leitch,
The New Republic,
16 Oct 2016
rotten:
Piles up plotlines like an overbuilt house of cards that comes crashing down at the first well-earned guffaw of ridicule.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Oct 2016
rotten:
The movie isn't some wicked subversion suggesting that the world is so corrupt that the bad guys are really the good guys. Rather it's a movie that can't figure out what might constitute a good or a bad guy in the first place.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct 2016
fresh:
The Accountant is, begrudgingly, a pretty good time, especially once its solemnity gives way to its kitschy ode to familial pain.