The depth of the characterizations, the aura of tragic inevitability, the way in which horrible acts are made even more unsettling because they’re presented in such a matter-of-fact, non-exploitative manner…all these add up to a truly gripping [film].

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 22, 2024

Shot in upstate New York, the film’s cinematography evokes a tangible hopelessness through bleak landscapes, grey skies, dense forests, and remote dwellings.

| Oct 31, 2023

From the start, audiences will find themselves hooked by Kaylee's journey and the fight that she's about to embark on. She's definitely tough, based on her once profession and physical appearance, but we also see so many other sides of her.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 21, 2022

It is that authenticity and detail that gives this film its grit and its indelibility. Once you believe in the granular reality of a film, it is far easier to accept the storyline, no matter how lurid it might become.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2022

The trajectory of the movie in its first hour increased expectations that the film would be one of the best of the festival, but unfortunately, it falls right down in the middle of the pack.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Apr 22, 2022

Clearly, [Wladyka] has a knack for filming crime stories, especially where they overlap with tales of exploitation and the dispossessed underclass.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2022

Catch the Fair One’s unflinching brutality captures a reality too common for Indigenous American women, and Reis’ star-making turn is a knockout.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2022

Of the various thrillers [debuting] this week, I thought this was the most interesting one and the most distinctive of them.

| Feb 24, 2022

This is good. This is very, very good.

| Feb 24, 2022

It’s astonishing to realise that this is Reis’ first screen role.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 17, 2022

Tight, focused and sad, Josef Kubota Wladyka & Kali Reis film works as a solid revenge thriller in a dirty world too ignored in real life and often poorly handled in film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2022

Something of a diamond in the rough with a worthy debut from Kali Reis, Catch The Fair One will leave you feeling uncomfortable, but not fully satisfied.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Feb 16, 2022

A film with a documentary feel to it, about sex-trafficking of Native-American girls for truckers and pedophiles; a reality that the human world needs to sit in collective shame about. A must-see. Not an easy watch, but worth it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2022

I won't reveal the ending, but I think it's meant to deny any easy redemption. If it's supposed to leave us distressed, it works.

| Feb 16, 2022

Catch the Fair One is an often told story from a unique perspective, but despite a good lead performance, the plot becomes a little too formulaic.

| Feb 15, 2022

Catch the Fair One is an undeniably grim and brutal experience, but those who are up for it will find themselves rewarded with an unusually thoughtful and effective thriller that packs a punch in more ways than one.

| Feb 14, 2022

Wladyka's film features a protagonist we don't often get to see in revenge thrillers.

| Feb 14, 2022

There’s something immediate and personal about what you see in Catch the Fair One that gets past the “it’s only a movie” filter and makes it register.

| Feb 12, 2022

The grim vibe cuts hard, reminding us that one woman’s individual actions can only go so far in rectifying systemic violence.

| Feb 11, 2022

The film has a queasy, grinding, pulsating energy.

| Feb 11, 2022