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April 25, 2025 
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When a sequel to “The Accountant” was announced, I have to admit I was puzzled. In my memory, the 2016 original, starring Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick, was a fun action flick and little more. But as I learned from my colleague Reggie Ugwu, who interviewed Affleck and his collaborators on the remake, “The Accountant” was the most rented movie of 2017, ahead even of “Moana.”
“Since it came out, it’s been one of the likeliest movies that people mention when they come up to me,” Affleck told Ugwu, adding the surprise of the plot (about a neurodivergent C.P.A. who dabbles in revenge on the side) “made people say, ‘Hey, you should see this, even if you might not typically watch action movies.’ That’s how a movie kind of breaks out a little bit.”
As for the sequel, while it’s not a critic’s pick, Manohla Dargis writes approvingly, “It’s adroitly paced, unburdened by narrative logic (there are almost as many coincidences as corpses) and buoyed by its well-synced, charismatic leads.”
What did our critics like? Alissa Wilkinson praises the quiet drama “Blue Sun Palace,” about workers at a Queens massage parlor, describing the director Constance Tsang’s debut feature as “sensitive, lovely and ultimately devastating.”
Whatever you decide to watch, enjoy the movies!
