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The Counselor
MEANRANK
45/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5586
- IMDb #5342
- Google retired #3795
- Rotten Tomatoes #4790
- Metacritic #4285
- Letterboxd #4868
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4533
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5068
- Metacritic Critics #3571
- Metacritic Audience #4714
- Criticker #3360
- Kinopoisk #5349
- AlloCiné #5340
- Trakt #5097
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 24, highest is Kinopoisk on 56.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A successful lawyer, known only as the Counselor, decides to finance a one-time drug shipment to make a large score. His venture plunges him into the brutal and unforgiving world of high-stakes drug trafficking, where a single bad decision leads to a rapid and inescapable downward spiral of violence and betrayal.
Details
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Writer
- Cormac McCarthy
- Released
- 25 October 2013
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $25.0M
- Box office
- $71.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Best WTF Moment 2014 | — | Nominee | |
| British Actor of the Year 2014 | — | Nominee |
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