Playing out in ‘real’ time, the film feels refreshing and unpredictable. We almost forget that this is a film, and not real life unfolding before our very eyes. Please remember, that this is just a film and don’t forget to breathe.

| Oct 11, 2024

“The Guilty” is a refreshing film that engages the imagination instead of dumbing things down and taking the safe route.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2023

It’s an impressive debut from Swedish filmmaker Gustav Möller, who uses his single location superbly. He isolates Asger within the frame as the tensions build and uses pauses and telephone silence to ratchet up the anxiety.

| Feb 4, 2023

The Danish film “The Guilty” is the latest glowing example of how great writing and a good actor’s steely intensity is more than enough for a genuinely gripping thriller.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Despite the film taking place in a few drab rooms filled with computer monitors and coworkers out of focus in the background, it somehow manages to be uncommonly engaging.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2022

Films contained in a single location like this only works efficiently when you've got a sharp, astute script... how refreshing to see a film where the writing is the best special effects.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 20, 2021

Episode 23: Vox Lux / The Guilty / Shoplifters / The Mule / Rififi

| Original Score: 82/100 | Sep 3, 2021

...compulsively watchable...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2020

There are some startling yet credible twists, and Cedergren's performance gradually reveals complex layers in a character who at first seems anything but complicated, or sympathetic.

| Oct 22, 2020

Its simplicity sometimes dips into shallowness, but for most of its 85 minutes, The Guilty is quiet and self-assured.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

It's Oedipus Rex minus the incest, replacing the hubris of royal prerogative with that of state authority (and of straight White maleness).

| Jul 1, 2020

This Danish potboiler is organized around a few nimbly executed plot twists, and like many similarly designed thrillers, it leaves the audience with little to think about once all the surprises have been revealed.

| Apr 13, 2020

Combining Sorry, Wrong Number's radio-drama appeal and Locke's claustrophobic tension, The Guilty might be the best film of [the 2018 Florida Film Festival].

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2020

First-time director Gustav Möller is able to overcome the cookie cutter plot to reveal some hard truths about law enforcement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2019

Writer-director Gustav Müller's feature-film debut is a nerve-shredding hell on wheels.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2019

The Guilty works better as an experiment than a full movie. There just isn't enough going on that's interesting to keep the audience engaged.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | May 16, 2019

Here, physical space creates a figurative space of mental anguish, so while the protagonist tries to avert an exterior crisis he's swallowed whole by his own internal turmoil.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2019

[A] captivating story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 26, 2019

As a character study, the film is extremely effective. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 25, 2019

A wonderful surprise. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2019