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

The Guilty is a clever Danish thriller that takes full advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of modern communications.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2019

Despite its self-imposed limitations, the skilfully made The Guilty excels as a compelling and tense evening in the cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2019

"The Guilty" is a nerve-wracking exercise in tension that also manages to reveal itself in layers, leaving assumptions dashed on the floor.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 25, 2019

A masterclass in wringing breathless tension from just a few key ingredients.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2018

Make the right call and watch this immediately.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2018

The Guilty stays afloat, but it never builds to the armrest-clutching peaks of suspense that the premise promises.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2018

Godard said that all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. Well, with his smart and mercilessly gripping abduction thriller, the Danish director Gustav Möller has pulled it off with a middle-aged man and a hands-free phone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2018

Echoes of Dog Day Afternoon and Locke reverberate around this claustrophobic thriller, which is tautly plotted, precisely paced and grippingly played by Jakob Cedergren and his unseen co-stars.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2018

"The Guilty" is smartly constructed and tautened with regular twists, but, if it were merely clever, it wouldn't test your nerves as it does.

| Oct 22, 2018

The Guilty is a clever, thoroughly engrossing film from Denmark that marks the directorial debut of Swedish-born Gustav Möller, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

| Oct 22, 2018

Builds to an explosively emotional climax that had me choking back tears as it delivered one gut-wrenching punch to the stomach after another.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 20, 2018

Set in an enclosed room with essentially one actor, and made up entirely of phone conversations, the film employs a full toolbox of cinematic techniques to fashion a complex character study.

| Oct 19, 2018

Piecing together what is really going on is almost as satisfying as figuring out the clues of a first-rate detective story.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 19, 2018

A cinematic study in tension, sound design, and how to make a thrilling movie with a limited tool box.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2018

The Guilty is an exquisite reminder that all you need is four walls and a great performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2018

If the setting of "The Guilty" couldn't be simpler, its immaculate execution by first-time director Gustav Möller couldn't be more gripping and involving.

| Oct 18, 2018

Clever sound design helps sculpt the clockwork narrative. The best stories are the ones that unfold in your mind.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2018

"The Guilty" provides a master class in low-budget yet high-concept independent filmmaking. It's riveting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2018

It's a clever enough variation on a genre, done with a genuine sense of verve - the sort of rough gem you don't want to keep on hold.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2018