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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 29 Jun 2022

Alternately stark and lurid, poetic and very well acted, it’s a return to form for McDonagh, who rather lost the plot with “War on Everyone.”…

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By Ethan Vestby (87) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 29 Jun 2022

It’s a work by people who aren’t talentless or stupid but lack the perspective to say or present anything an audience looking to have its…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 28 Jun 2022

The Forgiven wants to have things both ways…

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By Mark Hanson (70) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 18 Sep 2021

Whatever satire of white elite society is intended by The Forgiven has been blunted by monotony…

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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 17 Sep 2021

Dark and unsettling, The Forgiven doesn’t ask us to like its characters, but it forces us to watch as privilege begins to shatter and people…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 17 Sep 2021

Chastain pulls focus whenever she can, operating as one of the film’s main resources of levity and acerbic bite…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Sep 2021

Scripted, directed and acted with intelligence and panache, it’s a very grown-up film but never a bore, a morally alert drama that leaves…

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By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for IndieWire (3,631) on 14 Sep 2021

While this nasty film seems headed toward a conclusion where the rich win and the status quo is maintained, that’s abruptly shattered by…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Sep 2021

McDonagh’s characters are more complex than the initial caricatures make them out to be — perhaps, in the end, even pitiful — leaving…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 14 Sep 2021

The Forgiven runs the risk of becoming a thoughtless movie about a vile white man who is taught a lesson by wise brown people, but McDonagh,…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 14 Sep 2021

The storytelling ends up a little too murky to be the grand commentary on privilege and exploitation McDonagh intends…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 14 Sep 2021

The film’s strange scrappy indefinability is both its blessing and curse…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Sep 2021

McDonagh is such a smart writer that one spends much of the movie waiting for his script to exhibit some awareness of the trope, and to comment…

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