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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dekanalog
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dekanalog
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary Charlie Victor Romeo is a performance documentary derived entirely from the "Black Box" transcripts of six major real-life airline emergencies.

Directed By: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Karlyn Michelson

Written By: Irving Gregory, Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dekanalog
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Dekanalog
  • 1 h 20 m

Charlie Victor Romeo

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Charlie Victor Romeo is a performance documentary derived entirely from the "Black Box" transcripts of six major real-life airline emergencies.

Directed By: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Karlyn Michelson

Written By: Irving Gregory, Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
65
73% Positive
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
65
73% Positive
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
Jan 31, 2014
The 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
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 28, 2014
Charlie 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.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 29, 2014
Whatever reservations it prompts, the film is innovative, original, and queasily effective.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 31, 2014
That the same performers keep returning in different roles, playing Peruvian and Japanese flyers as well as American ones, only adds to the sense of man as machine. Everything, and everyone, must run like clockwork. Yet no apparatus is foolproof.
By Mark Jenkins FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 30, 2014
A unique, unsettling experience.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 30, 2014
As seen in Charlie Victor Romeo (code for “Cockpit Voice Recorder”), the events are almost unbearably gripping.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 28, 2014
The 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.
By Matt Singer FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 3-Legged Dog, Collective:Unconscious
Release Date Jan 29, 2014
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline What is going on up there behind the door in the front of the airplane? Who are these people we trust our lives to, and what do they really do when things go horribly wrong?
Website https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/charlie-victor-romeo?variant=40804513742890
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• 1 Nomination

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