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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekVillage VoiceStephanie ZacharekCharlie Victor Romeo shows us how much of life's weight and meaning can be packed into one second of thought or action; it's a work of shivery intimacy.
- 80The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIt is a curious hybrid of documentary and experimental theater. It is also one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe ritualized presentation of these disasters... adds up to a kind of unsettling spiritual experience, a communion with the dead that demands the quiet participation of a group
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe film's tension doesn't come from the why or how, but more from the idea that one becomes so settled into habit that seemingly nothing is capable of interfering.
- 75The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergThe A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergWhatever reservations it prompts, the film is innovative, original, and queasily effective.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinA unique, unsettling experience.
- 70VarietyJohn AndersonVarietyJohn AndersonThe screenwriter/playwrights have processed the characters’ last words in ways that imbue them with as much humanity as possible.
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAs seen in Charlie Victor Romeo (code for “Cockpit Voice Recorder”), the events are almost unbearably gripping.
- 40The DissolveMatt SingerThe DissolveMatt SingerThe small company of actors make convincing pilots, flight attendants, and air-traffic controllers, but their activities, tragic and brave though they may be, quickly grow monotonous.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichCharlie Victor Romeo would probably work best as a training tool for commercial airline pilots (the play, interestingly, has already been used in this fashion by the Pentagon). In a movie theater for a paying crowd, it’s little more than minimalist snuff.