The film doesn't work without this character's pain, and Wilde absolutely sells it, a spectacular performance.

| May 31, 2019

[A] patient, nuanced film-making that showcases, in Wilde, a muscular and increasingly versatile screen talent.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2019

It's a tough, tense movie with a couple of bone-snappingly violent moments, but critically it dials down the exploitation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2019

One of those small but brutal films that major directorial careers are made from.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2019

It's... good to see a cunning and capable actress rise above her usual projects, such as stupid fodder like Tron or Cowboys and Aliens, or labels like "Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2010."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2019

The film manages to be both hopeful and devastating - and recommended viewing for anyone who subscribes to the facile notion that abused women should "just leave."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2019

A Vigilante is a brutal film, as cold and bleak as its industrial upstate New York setting.

| Mar 28, 2019

Vigilantism is a questionable fantasy of empowerment, but Daggar-Nickson makes her movie (largely) work by keeping everything - her antihero, the registers of violence - austere and persuasively low key.

| Mar 28, 2019

The two sides of "A Vigilante" are ultimately held together by Wilde's ferocious performance - which swings between steely control and eruptive emotion - and by the way Dagger-Nickson frames nearly every moment from Sadie's perspective.

| Mar 28, 2019

It conspicuously tries to distance itself from the revenge film's propensity toward florid excess.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 24, 2019

As an actress, Olivia Wilde has been something of a shape-shifter, but in this movie she seems to be burning through all her previous roles to find something essential.

| Mar 18, 2018

Putting a deliberately unromantic spin on its wish-fulfillment scenario, the film scratches a genre itch without using it as an excuse ... for vicarious sadism.

| Mar 12, 2018