Rife with the downfalls of human subservience, Compliance is a luminous, pulsating Milgram experiment come to life, and you won't be able to turn your gaze from the results.

| Nov 16, 2020

It took me places I did not want to go, got me in a mindset so infuriating I was angry at myself for thinking the thoughts I was.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2020

Writer-director Craig Zobel puts both his characters and his audience through 90 minutes of squirmy hell.

| Original Score: 2.4/5 | Nov 11, 2019

A complex and unnerving psychological thriller that is unmistakably the work of a promising and daring new talent.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Compliance is a tremendously incisive film; deeply intelligent and clinically compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

The challenging but compelling feature is at all times exasperating and thought-provoking.

| Dec 4, 2018

It's not an easy watch, which is kind of the point, and I'm not even sure what genre it is. Psychological horror? Thriller? But it will haunt and resonate.

| Sep 4, 2018

Fraught with thriller tropes seen through an art-house filter, with plenty of coldly beautiful establishing shots of corporate America.

| Aug 30, 2018

It will leave you feeling traumatized and ugly and soul-sick, and so it should.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 19, 2018

Compliance's underlying humanism and political conscience lift it beyond being a macho endurance test.

| Feb 22, 2018

Plausibly acted, if implausibly directed by Craig Zobel (Great World Of Sound), the credulity of this provocative scenario would snap had it not actually happened more than 70 times across 30 US states.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2017

The most disturbing aspect of Compliance is its implied complicity.

| Aug 11, 2017

Zobel does a great job of just making you uncomfortable, making you want to just yell at the screen and tell the characters to just stop.

| Oct 14, 2016

Dark, disturbing, confrontational stuff. Also a damn good film.

| Aug 24, 2015

Compliance is diminutively sufficient and blandly adequate with no additional layers that elevate its small independent nature. It feels rather one note riding on the promise of a distinctive tale that never totally comes to fulfillment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 14, 2014

A frightening look at the power of authority and the human desire to avoid conflict.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 15, 2013

It never loses sight of its goal to persuade us to be more aware, more questioning of our leaders and institutions, from politicians to priests to, in this case, the police.

| Original Score: A- | May 26, 2013

The only film of 2012 that had me actively booing its villain - a mundane monster who doesn't need to touch his victims to scar them for life.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 22, 2013

Compliance is a horror movie with no sudden frights, no gore, and not a single scream. It's a surveillance video, capturing us with all our blemishes; a reminder that how we see ourselves is so rarely in line with the truth

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2013

That the events in Compliance are taking place in a fast-foot restaurant is equally resonant. The junk food we see being prepared couldn't be more disgusting. Surely, you can't help but think, anyone prepared to swallow that will swallow anything.

| Mar 25, 2013