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- The Accountant is both an intriguingly and maddeningly schizophrenic action drama: It’s intriguing due to its audacious attempt to make an antisocial, on-the-spectrum math genius into an action hero, and maddening because, having gone halfway toward genuine eccentricity, it conforms by relying on fatigued genre tropes when it finally gets down to business.
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Oct 14, 2016 · Said opening minutes, directed with customary nose-to-the-grindstone conviction by Gavin O’Connor, feature a strange scene of an urban mob massacre, tinged in sepia and boasting a lot of faux-celluloid graininess, to imply “period grit.”.
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The Accountant is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor, written by Bill Dubuque and starring Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Jeffrey Tambor, and John Lithgow.
Oct 22, 2023 · 2016's The Accountant was an unexpected hit due in large part to a strong performance from Ben Affleck and a surprise twist ending that elevated the movie above the usual action fare. Directed by Gavin O'Connor ( Warrior ), The Accountant concerns Christian Wolff (Affleck), a brilliant number cruncher on the autism spectrum who provides his ...
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Synopsis. Christian 'Chris' Wolff ( Ben Affleck ), a mental calculator, works as a forensic accountant, tracking insider financial deceptions for numerous criminal enterprises. His clients are brokered to him via phone by a woman's voice, which originates from a restricted number.
Oct 12, 2016 · “The Accountant” is nothing if not a puzzle — not so much a jigsaw as a three-dimensional brain teaser that gets deeper and stranger with each new revelation.
Oct 12, 2016 · Rated R, 128 minutes. Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick star in Gavin O'Connor's thriller 'The Accountant,' the story of an antisocial math genius who is also an ace fighter...
Oct 13, 2016 · In “The Accountant” a mathematician who is on the autism spectrum and who was severely abused as a child now makes a living working with criminal organizations.
