Zero Charisma
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  • Summary: As the strict Game Master of a fantasy role-playing game, Scott (Sam Eidson) leads his friends in a weekly quest through mysterious lands from the safety of his grandmother’s kitchen. But his mastery of his own domain starts to slip — along with everything else in his life — when neo-nerd hierd hipster Miles (Garrett Graham) joins the game, winning over the group with his confident charm and dethroning Scott with an unexpected coup. Caught in delusions of grandeur, Scott must roll the dice and risk everything to expose Miles as the fraud he believes him to be. [Tribeca Film]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. indieWIRE
    Reviewed by: Eric Kohn
    Oct 9, 2013
    91
    Directors Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews' directorial debut (from Matthews' screenplay) centers on a highly unlikable character who has alienated himself from social responsibility -- and forces you to sympathize with him against all odds.
  2. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Jordan Hoffman
    Sep 23, 2013
    90
    Directors Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews create a great framework for the epic nemesis battle, but also know when to pull back to keep the movie grounded in reality.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Alan Scherstuhl
    Oct 8, 2013
    90
    The comic scenes arc into bleakness, and the bleak ones often collapse back into comedy.
  4. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Oct 11, 2013
    63
    Zero Charisma is a movie about emotionally inert people who labor mightily to change their lives in small ways, and whose efforts at self-improvement are thwarted by emotional feedback loops that cause them to make the same mistakes over and over. If it were possible to roll your way out of real world crises, these guys would do just fine, but there are no saving throws in life.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: John DeFore
    Sep 23, 2013
    60
    Sam Eidson is perfect for the lead role, but that doesn't exactly guarantee the fanboy crowd will embrace the film.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Oct 10, 2013
    50
    Has plenty of humor but no satirical bite.
  7. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Gabe Toro
    Oct 11, 2013
    25
    It’s an ugly, unpleasant viewing experience, one that sees geek culture as a hateful cesspool of exclusion and juvenility, miserable to experience first-hand.

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  1. CorbeauNoir
    Oct 12, 2013
    8
    Watched as part of the Calgary International Film Festival. Plenty of cringe humor and exposes hipsters for the pop-culture vampires they are for good measure.… Expand

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