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Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSeducing Charlie Barker is a movie made by people who haven't been making movies, but should be. As in, often. As in, from now on.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe storyline is hardly original, but it does provide the opportunity for Rebeck to unleash wickedly scathing observations about the sort of self-obsessed show business types who pursue their own interests no matter who it hurts.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceIn adapting her recent play The Scene, Theresa Rebeck can't find a consistent tone for her material or players.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAn intermittently interesting but fatally clichéd comedy of personal and professional suicide.
- 25Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenCharlie is a stereotype who doesn't know it--basically your typical broke dude in a near midlife crisis who thinks he's the first to have his dull problems.