Being Charlie, despite having its heart in the right place, just isn't that movie.

Full Review | Jan 6, 2021

"Being Charlie" tries to cover several aspects...but the lines are not connected enough for it to have any kind of substantial emotional effect on the audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Competent yet perpetually uninvolving...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 27, 2018

Too often lately Robinson has been the best part of meh movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

Yes, there's hugging at the end, but there's also no sugarcoating the truth about drugs.

Full Review | Jan 2, 2017

A well-crafted work that features a powerful performance by former child actor Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Being Charlie is far too predictable, relying too often on all-too-familiar drug-story tropes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2016

You might even want to forgive the many times it goes off the rails, falling back on the stock cliches it seemed too cool to perpetuate.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 19, 2016

Mature depiction of young, self-defeating addict.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2016

When it's merely observing, Being Charlie refuses to offer simple answers. [The] subplots do just the opposite.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2016

Well-intended and capably made, I suspect that "Being Charlie" will find utility in rehab circles.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | May 13, 2016

"Being Charlie" is saved by Nick Robinson's natural and appealing performance in the lead role..

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | May 12, 2016

Better remembered as the vehicle to healing for the family than a movie that made an impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2016

Nothing in Rob Reiner's well-intentioned, cautionary domestic drug drama feels authentic, genuine or sincere.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 12, 2016

The film's great disappointment: that something so clearly conceived in earnestness and from real-life, first-person experience ends up feeling, well, kinda fake.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 12, 2016

Being Charlie wants to make one addict's problems at once light and substantial but fails by confusing these two conflicting approaches.

Full Review | May 12, 2016

There's something admirable about the fact that "Being Charlie" exists at all. It's a testament to Nick Reiner's survival. That doesn't mean it's a great movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2016

In the end, "Being Charlie" feels like a first draft of a story that's still in progress.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2016

Even as enlightenment occurs, Charlie is still mostly a guy you want to punch in the face.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 12, 2016

Complete with a long, pensive walk along the oceanfront, the film falls into well-worn devices found in many coming-of-age stories, but it's not without charmed performances.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 11, 2016

A 97 minute slog to a conclusion we see coming in minute one.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 11, 2016