The Company You Keep (2012)

In The Company You Keep Robert Redford directs Robert Redford in a film that is a distillation of so many Robert Redford themes that it made me grin. You have the old man outlaw in a long con and then on the run. You have romanticism for the old radical left. You have an intrepid old school investigative reporter. You have and all star cast ensemble cast. You have a film that's trying to say something vaguely political, but your not sure quite what. It does all these things satisfactorily well. Part thriller, part character study, it doesn't reinvent the wheel but its well executed. A satisfying film, even though its central twist becomes pretty clear about 2/3rds of the way through. It's not a great movie but its better then average, even Shia LaBeouf is acceptable in this. Also an early role for Brit Marling. ***1/2