Critic Reviews for The Accountant on Moviebuff.com

The Accountant is propulsive and rarely boring, but the filmmakers would have done well to take their creation less seriously

Margot Harrison, Seven Days

The Accountant certainly isn’t by the numbers, but it’s still a pretty familiar formula

Neil Morris, Indy Week

It’s like Will Hunting and Jason Bourne rolled into one, brains and bullets

Peter Debruge, Variety

Autistic Superhero Didn't Make A Catch To Viewers

Marion Villareal, ITech Post

The Accountant is singular in lending an action-movie cliché an absurdly peculiar and elaborate backstory

Jake Coyle, The National

They take what could have been a lean, intense thriller and load it up with plot and backstory that don’t benefit the overall film in any substantive way

Matt Goldberg, Collider

The Accountant is committed to a pretense of difference

Noah Berlatsky, The Guardian

Christian Wolff appears like a typical accountant, belying the fact that he’s actually well-versed in a number of fighting styles

Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inquirer

The timeline of “The Accountant” is so arbitrary that the subplots seem shuffled like pieces of an unfinished jigsaw puzzle

Stephen Holden, The New York Times

Ben Affleck rocks it with changing between a common accountant who is brilliant and a trained assassin who is equally brilliant

Mansi Bengali, BookMyShow

“The Accountant’s” circuitous route is certain to tax your brain, bottom line it provides a generous refund in sheer entertainment value

Michael S Goldberger, New Jersey Hills

Gavin O’Connor did a fine job in deriving an action thriller which mixes the sentiments in the required streams and boils up a feature which keeps you engaged throughout the film

Sajid, Cinema Glitz

Affleck himself really is the best thing about The Accountant and if he’s not enough to save it, he is enough to make it watchable

Joshua Starnes, ComingSoon.net

If you buy into whatever preposterous development occurs in the film, you’ll find yourself enjoying The Accountant

Mihir Fadnavis, First Post

Ben Affleck delivers a subtle, intriguing performance in The Accountant, a film that's as much a character study as it is a showcase for gun battles and hand-to-hand combat

Jim Vejvoda StaxIGN, IGN

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

Chris Cooper, Flickering Myth

Right from its grim cinematography, unhurried pacing and ambiguous setting to the story’s melancholic undertones, The Accountant is a riveting case study

Renuka Vyavahare, The Times of India

Go watch the film if you’re a Ben Affleck and/or action movie fan

Devesh Sharma, Filmfare

It’s a sonic rendering of the accountant’s mind: serene, precise and relentless

Mick LaSalle, SFGate

The scene serves as an apt metaphor for the film

Wesley Teal, The Courier

The Accountant is mostly too goofy to really hate

AA Dowd, AV Club

"The Accountant" takes advantage of its share of creative loopholes - and manages to break even in the process

New Orleans Los Angeles News Source, New Orleans Los Angeles News

Oh, autism? They are sticking by that story

Shalini Langer, Indian Express

It goes very far south, with two plot reveals that are among the most ludicrous that I’ve experienced in quite some time

Glenn Kenny, Roger Ebert

"The Accountant” is all of these things, and yet seldom any of them at the same time

David Ehrlich, Indiewire

The Accountant is both an intriguingly and maddeningly schizophrenic action drama

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

When you take Ben Affleck's Christian Wolff out of the equation, The Accountant doesn't really amount to much

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

It’s definitely a must-see for any serious action fan, and hopefully that audience will turn this into the sleeper hit it deserves to be

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo.com

There's much to work around with The Accountant, but, deep down, its action-heavy roots show and end up entertaining pretty much from start to finish

Jeremy Kirk, First Showing

Ben Affleck impresses as a maths savant in a thriller marred by inconsistencies

Wendy Ide, The Guardian