Featured Audience Ratings

• Adam M

  
  Tak Fujimoto and Jonathan Demme have shot this a lot hipper than anyone half their age could. Thandie Newton is great & funny, magically cute at few moments, and beautiful the rest of the time. She would make a fine, and definitely sexier, replacement for Audrey Hepburn in… More
  Tak Fujimoto and Jonathan Demme have shot this a lot hipper than anyone half their age could. Thandie Newton is great & funny, magically cute at few moments, and beautiful the rest of the time. She would make a fine, and definitely sexier, replacement for Audrey Hepburn in several films. The writers seem to have assumed that since no one can compete with Cary Grant, Mark Wahlberg shouldn't have good lines to work with. The homages to the French New Wave are clever and prettily situated, but they dispel the suspense atmosphere, and -- for me -- make the movie look like it's catering to anglophone snobs who can't stand a mere thriller. And Demme doesn't want to do a mere thriller that's hipper and more involving than usual. He casts the bad guys as an ethnic rainbow, and it turns out none of them are really bad, just misunderstood and misunderstanding other people. (Scary hook-hand guy from the original is now just a big lunk who requires electroacupuncture so he doesn't expire from cardiopulmonary stress -- I'm serious.) Each of the bad guys even hates violence; the only one comfortable with it is a betrayed 50s straight-arrow military type that was too unhip to be in the original Charade. Demme's kind of liberalism seems to aspire not only to banish all sense of menace from society, but also from its movie genres. (Star rating for Tak Fujimoto and Thandie Newton.)

• Red L

  
  Have you ever watched a movie and thought that you've seen it already. That happened to me with this movie. It was as interesting the second time as the first. The only thing I could remember from the first time to the second was that stamps were involved. The movie is a… More
  Have you ever watched a movie and thought that you've seen it already. That happened to me with this movie. It was as interesting the second time as the first. The only thing I could remember from the first time to the second was that stamps were involved. The movie is a whodunit, except from the point of view of a new wife who returns from a vacation and finds her husband has been murdered. It takes the whole movie for her and the viewers to find out about the husband's prior life and who killed him and why.

• Emil K

  
  This is basically director Jonathan Demme having just a great time with his crew in Paris, but instead of leaving us to the outside, he invites us in for the colourful journey through a possibilites of cinema itself. Structucally this is quite a mess but visually just gorgeous. Demme… More
  This is basically director Jonathan Demme having just a great time with his crew in Paris, but instead of leaving us to the outside, he invites us in for the colourful journey through a possibilites of cinema itself. Structucally this is quite a mess but visually just gorgeous. Demme and his lenser Tak Fujimoto creates a Paris we have never seen before. With fantastic use of filters, handheld-cameras, different lenses and switching between digital and film, he make this something closer of a Wong Kar-Wai film than a typical Hollywood caper. If you are in the mood for entertaining and stylish fun, then look no further. Truth About Charlie is like a good meal in a fine restaurant.

• Dean M

  
  This remake of 1963 movie is great, full of thriller by finding the truth.

• John B

  
  Very cool film that doesn't quite approach the level of Matt Damon in the Bourne series but is nonetheless tremendously entertaining with many delightful and unexpected cameos.

• John M

  
  The REAL Truth About Charlie is that it sucks!!

• FanGirl B

  
  I know this film got bad reviews but I thought it was a fun mind bender. I really really did not figure the twists out before the end.

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