The Square marks an incredible debut for Nash Edgerton, complete with an assuredness of style and tone that comes seldom to first-time filmmakers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2023

The atmosphere becomes so charged that, even the insidious way a man makes an appointment to get his hair cut seems fraught with innuendo and peril.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2017

a Sisyphusian tale about idealists devoting their lives to bringing about change.

| Jan 30, 2013

This kind of crime film is not easy to make, and the Edgertons have done an admirable job with The Square.

| Sep 3, 2010

The Square gets plenty of early elements in place to promise something more special than it ultimately becomes... Even a strong first impression can't survive such a flailing resolution.

| Original Score: C | Aug 30, 2010

"The Square": It's Australian for noir, mate.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 26, 2010

A debut feature that replaces the Coen brothers' humor in similarly labyrinthine comedies of errors with Arthur Penn's grit and Peckinpah's tense string tuning.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2010

Dire, frantic, and unfailingly engaging...introduces a major filmmaking talent to the scene who understands the utter joy that comes with detailing complete psychological devastation.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 14, 2010

A well-made and entertaining descent into a black-comic hell.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

It's as if filmmaking brothers Joel and Nash Edgerton (Joel cowrote, produced and costars, Nash directed) sat down and said, "Let's watch these suckers wreck their lives, and the lives of everyone around them."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2010

A perverse delight, the rare film that makes you feel good about feeling bad (or at least watching others do so).

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 22, 2010

A tough, twisty tale of murder, adultery and purloined loot that stays true to author James Ellroy's succinct summation of the primary theme of film noir: 'We're all ----ed.'

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 11, 2010

The Edgertons are in complete command of their craft, without bringing anything new to the party.

Full Review | Jun 2, 2010

Slick compared to films noir of old, the stunts too cool and characters too swishy, but swaggering with a good old-fashioned edge and raw steaming action for each and every one of its 105 minutes.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 27, 2010

The movie's protagonists (and all of its supporting characters) are reprehensible people, and Roberts' performance is fascinatingly uncharismatic, extinguishing any possibility of sympathy for his character even when the film gradually reveals his town to

| Original Score: 42/100 | May 26, 2010

In terms of a modern crime thriller, you're not going to do any better than this debut film.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 26, 2010

While the performances are good, it felt like I had already seen this movie before. Also, if you are looking to root for anyone, you're going to have to look elsewhere.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 22, 2010

The Square recalls one of cinema's all-time classic lines, that moment in 1981's Body Heat when Kathleen Turner's femme fatale Matty Walker studies William Hurt's gullible Ned Racine and declares, "You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 21, 2010

Rather than intrigue, the pile-up of confounding issues in The Square merely bores, hindered by pacing that is uniformly slow rather than suspenseful. A better title: The Blob.

| Original Score: 2.5/10 | May 21, 2010

What's to be admired is how fearlessly Edgerton embraces the dirt and grime oozing out of "The Square," manufacturing the guilt that's produced when information is withheld, when lies are tossed around, and when the best laid plans go awry.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2010