
A documentary derived entirely from 'Black Box' transcripts of six real-life major airline emergencies.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary derived entirely from 'Black Box' transcripts of six real-life major airline emergencies.
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| Shared DarknessBrent SimonAn unique and unsettling piece of minimalist experimental cinema [that] blends low-fi technique with high-tension situations, and wrings a real rooting interest out of viewers. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe 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 |
| Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekCharlie 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. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIt is a curious hybrid of documentary and experimental theater. It is also one of the most terrifying movies I have ever seen. |
| Slant MagazineWes GreeneThe film's tension doesn't come from the why or how, but more from the idea that one becomes so settled into habit that seemingly nothing is capable of interfering. |
| The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergWhatever reservations it prompts, the film is innovative, original, and queasily effective. |
| AwardsCircuit.comClayton DavisSomething about hearing the voices of individuals seconds before they die is very reflective and makes you look closely on your own life. |
| NonficsDan SchindelThe airline industry should be thankful that Charlie Victor Romeo will likely never be seen by anyone besides the art house crowd. Were the documentary to somehow become popular, it could do to air travel what Jaws did to beach-going. |
| NPRMark JenkinsThat 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. |
| VarietyJohn AndersonThe screenwriter/playwrights have processed the characters’ last words in ways that imbue them with as much humanity as possible. |