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By Lezlee H (26) on 14 Sep 2012

A very tense portrayal of the psychological truism that authority, any authority, is a dangerous thing when so many human beings willingly…

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By William D (321) on 13 Sep 2012

Excellently acted and directed…

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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 Lahaine2012 (24) on 30 Aug 2012

Compliance is a small movie that's saying a lot more than some of the biggest, high budget films being released…

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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 Ber (1) on 29 Aug 2012

Everything about this movie is dumb. Not least the characters who must share an IQ of 75 between them…

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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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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 29 Aug 2012

Zobel, a second-time feature filmmaker, has put together a skillful, sympathetic but unsparing re-enactment of a small-scale atrocity, and…

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By Jim Brunzell Iii (14) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 29 Aug 2012

Zobel's masterful direction and screenplay heighten the distress of authority figures possessing unseen persuasion over naive employees, exposing…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 29 Aug 2012

We think we're more world-wise than these people and that this could never happen and then Zobel brilliantly forces us to come to terms with…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 29 Aug 2012

Shows good intentions gone bad (and bad intentions gone horrible), with characters persuaded to bite off inch by inch until an entire yard is gone…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Aug 2012

This is a well-made film, with plausible performances by all the leads, especially Ann Dowd…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 26 Aug 2012

A film designed to provoke social as well as cinematic comment…

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