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Affleck as a math savantmarksmanmartial artist who uncooks books and kicks backsides, is an effective and even affecting pop thriller, based on a pretty novel idea: Mr.

Afflecks Christian Wolff is autistic, his disorder giving him the upper hand in a world of international gangsters, drug cartels and government agents trying to take him down.

Yet director Gavin OConnor (Warrior, Miracle) treats it all with considerable delicacy, allowing Mr.

Affleck to be charming, and juggling a surprising number of intersecting plotlines, considering the usual requirements of a studio thriller.

Treveiler) who made his family sufferall seen through the films recurring flashbacks, which are richly detailed.

But other, more tangential characters are fleshed out, too, and generously: Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), for instance, the Treasury agent assigned to track down the mysterious forensic accountant who keeps popping up in surveillance photos of drug lords and terrorists, has a police record.

Shes been reluctant to seek promotion lest her past be dug up,which is exactly how her boss, Raymond King (J.K.

Simmons)a government lifer who has his own nightmarish connection to Christianblackmails her into taking the case.

Subtitle Film The Accountant