Does just enough to keep you engaged but nothing more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2021

Gyllenhaal works hard to make Baylor a more conflicted character. Yet in humanizing him the film also reduces an institutional failing into an individual one.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 15, 2021

Gyllenhaal's best performance since his phenomenal turn in Nightcrawler. The adaption itself does however fail to make a convincing argument for its existence.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2021

If you come to this Netflix remake first, you are going to be blown away by a hurricane-force performance from Gyllenhaal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2021

Nails the setup, but there's still the matter of generating a tight enough plot to justify Jake Gyllenhaal's grand efforts. And that's where the picture runs into trouble.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2021

"The Guilty" gets less and less plausible, not least of all in how neatly it ties together various plot elements.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2021

Gyllenhaal flexes all his considerable acting muscles in this taut, tense thriller. One of the better remakes you'll see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2021

All of it held together by Gyllenhaal's powerful performance...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 2, 2021

Logical lapses trip up Jake Gyllenhaal's rescue drama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 2, 2021

Both Fuqua and Gyllenhaal, working from a script by Nic Pizzolatto, give this relentless, claustrophobic drama their all, but, somehow, it is more phlegmatic than exciting.

| Oct 2, 2021

You could call this a vanity project, but at least [Jake Gyllenhaal's] presence adds a dose of originality to this carbon copy remake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2021

Fuqua rarely plays things this small - earlier this year he went way over-the-top with "Infinite" - but "The Guilty" shows that if he has to, he can do a lot with a little, especially if it's Gyllenhaal who's doing the lifting.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 30, 2021

Decent though Gustav Møller's 2018 version was, the details left a fair bit of room for improvement. This one leaves even more.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2021

Plot mechanics come to feel like exactly that - and Gyllenhaal's performance like finding yourself in a high-end acting workshop.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2021

[Gyllenhaal] builds to an all-caps-plus-exclamation-point performance; that he does so without losing his grip - on us or the character - is some kind of miracle.

| Sep 30, 2021

For its eventual lurid machinations and hyped-up emotionalism, the film winds up being a handsomely efficient one-man show.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2021

These performances and these ideas floating around were very, very important, and held me to it even when I was feeling lead a little bit along the way.

| Sep 29, 2021

I appreciate that this is a film with a lot of tension. Antoine Fuqua does what he can to poke holes into this idea of "the one cop who can save the day," and he just has a great actor here in Jake Gyllenhaal.

| Sep 29, 2021

It's all a smoke show, all flash-bang complexity with no soul. As titles go, The Guilty -- curt, descriptive, accurate -- couldn't be more appropriate.

| Sep 28, 2021

If you like Jake Gyllenhaal up close and sweaty, do we have a movie for you.

| Sep 24, 2021