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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 01 Nov 2012

Compliance strips bare the fallacy of equivalent free will…

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By Shaun Munro (472) for What Culture (594) on 24 Oct 2012

Without a single bullet in sight, Craig Zobel has crafted an ingenious, dizzying conversation piece of a thriller…

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By Ali Gray (310) for TheShiznit.co.uk (506) on 24 Oct 2012

About as far from an easy watch as you could imagine, Compliance is a seedy little story that you'll wind up watching between the cracks in…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Movie Habit (892) on 19 Oct 2012

Morally complex look at human behavior leaves you shaking your head in disbelief…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 21 Sep 2012

There's the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short. It's even worse when you're half-naked and locked in a supply room with your boss…

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By Chris Sawin (379) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 20 Sep 2012

Compliance' takes an extremely unpleasant and nauseating experience for everyone involved and puts this masterful spin on it to make it not…

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By Rene Rodriguez (1,781) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 20 Sep 2012

The movie even fails on a psychological level, never illustrating how, in a pressure-cooker environment and swept up by mob-think mentality,…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 20 Sep 2012

Its skillfully constructed scene-setting montages, its fraught, gliding camera moves and attractive compositions seem judgmental, suggesting…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 19 Sep 2012

Zobel isn't a sadist about all of this as, say, Roman Polanski or David Lynch or Todd Solondz might have been…

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By Glenn Lovell (434) for CinemaDope (253) on 16 Sep 2012

a sadomasochistic mind-trip ... It has the lingering impact of a gruesome freeway pileup ‒ you don't want to look, but you can't help yourself…

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By David Baldwin (17) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 12 Sep 2012

Compliance will leave you shocked and offended, but it misses out on any opportunity to be anything outside of a dramatization…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 06 Sep 2012

This psychodrama of ill-advised behavior may well leave you feeling dirty...for what you've watched helplessly and perhaps for what you've…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 05 Sep 2012

It makes you think. And that's invaluable…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 05 Sep 2012

It's a small gem of a movie, disturbingly realistic and profoundly terrifying on a near-primal level…

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By Chris Stuckmann (217) for Moviedex (362) on 03 Sep 2012

So long as you can tolerate the frustration it fosters, it's hard not to appreciate such intelligent provocation…

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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 29 Aug 2012

Zobel's unsparing approach is justified. This film should be hard to watch - and it is. But it's also hard to forget…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Aug 2012

The very antonym of fun, writer-director Craig Zobel's new film Compliance is one of the toughest sits of the movie year 2012…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Aug 2012

Compliance is an extraordinarily assured, well-made drama, signaling a promising career for Zobel, an adroit filmmaker with a talent for taut…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 29 Aug 2012

For once, the title card Based on true events is not some cheap gimmick to lend a story importance; it is a despondent cry of shock, disbelief,…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 29 Aug 2012

Bravely uncomfortable and sure to inspire heated post-movie (and likely mid-movie) conversation, Compliance is haunting, positively enraging…

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