The Company You Keep Review Roundup: Robert Redford and Shia Labeof's New Film Scores Mixed Reviews

This weekend Robert Redford's new film "The Company You Keep" will open in limited release.

The film, starring Redford and Shia Labeouf, centers on a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

The film opened at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals and won two awards at Venice. However, Redford's latest effort has garnered mixed reviews with the Hollywood Reporter stating "Robert Redford makes a welcome return to double-duty as director and lead actor in this clear-eyed drama about a former Weather Underground radical forced to reconcile with the past."

Variety also liked it and stated "The pic's colorful, almost-wastefully impressive cast limns a sociologically convincing rogue's gallery of reformed revolutionaries."

Time Magazine also found it impressive and said "With a welcome mixture of juice and grit, the movie dramatizes the lingering conundrums of young people in the time of the Vietnam morass."

However Film.com gave it a C and said "As an audience, we're forced to admit that the guy we're rooting for could be a sap. This is not a recommended method."

The NPR was also not satisfied and stated "By the end, it all seems to have been a lot of noise and running for nothing except the ultimate lesson that if journalists like the people they're reporting on, they owe them the favor of not doing journalism. Ta-da!"

Slant Magazine gave it a scathing review and said "A would-be thriller masquerading a long, dry monument to the reliability and comfort of community, blindly cocooned by its own nostalgic self-regard."

Redford last directed "Lions for Lambs" with Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. He also starred in "Charlotte's Webb and will next be seen in J.C Chandor's "All is Lost" and the Captain America sequel.

Labeouf was last seen in "Lawless" with Jessica Chastain and Tom Hardy. He also starred in "Transformers" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." He will next be seen in Lars Von Triers' "Nymphomaniac."

The film also stars Julie Christie, Chris Cooper, Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Anna Kendrick, Brit Marling, Brendan Gleeson, Richard Jenkins, Terrence Howard and Stanley Tucci.

Sony Classics Pictures will release the film in New York and Los Angeles and is rated R for language.