This story of redemption, pain and regret could have been a maudlin slog with a lesser actress inhabiting Ruth Slater, but in the hands of Bullock, it’s simply a must-see.

| Original Score: B+ | May 3, 2023

The Unforgivable is just that, in almost every way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 21, 2022

While the ending undermines much of the gritty authenticity from earlier in the film, Bullock’s performance keeps us centered while reminding us of how good she can be with the right material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2022

By the time The Unforgivable is over, you won't be pondering the real-world implications of the film's themes so much as shaking your head and muttering, "Only in the movies."

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 10, 2022

"Far-fetched and forgettable - wit a concluding plot twist that turns out to be too little too late.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 27, 2022

The film’s dull beige color palette and overly trite string score help only to underscore the largely one-note performances from what should h+ave been a promising ensemble cast.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 23, 2022

A muddled, dire film that feels chopped to pieces.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2022

This is a story about the depths and reality of love-the lengths to which people will go and the sacrifices they will make for the ones they love.

| Jan 25, 2022

Delivers a reasonably tense tale of twisted justice and sacrifice...Sandra Bullock registers another strong, straight turn...The film takes its time unfurling the story, drip-feeding details about what is going on and how all the pieces fit together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 19, 2022

The Unforgivable is a quiet thriller that works on so many levels. But at times, the pacing and story does waver slightly.

| Jan 14, 2022

Sandra Bullock plays a woman fresh out of prison fighting to restart her life. Her performance is spot on.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 10, 2022

Bullock is quite compelling as the down-but-not-out antihero, but the plot goes to safe places, undercutting a potentially more affecting result.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 28, 2021

In the 1970s, this would have been a film with Jimmy Caan directed by John Cassavetes, and it would have seemed much more true.

| Dec 24, 2021

This is awfully contrived, melodramatic, and nonsensical.

| Dec 24, 2021

The original allows for variations in mood, while also giving its characters lives outside the narrow constraints of the main game. The film, in contrast, is all business and a bit of a plod. It's time for Bullock to cheer up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2021

This movie is a total dud, a sleep-walked performance...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 23, 2021

It defaults to the worst form of rote storytelling: countless scenes of characters ventriloquising the film's morals and themes, and staggeringly clichéd use of flashbacks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 21, 2021

What could have been a promising and sensible social drama in Nora Fingscheidt's hands ends up being a flat and ordinary thriller. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 21, 2021

Bullock plays Ruth like a woman who is carrying a boulder on her shoulders, and it's an engrossing performance to witness. She powers most of the film's dramatic notes.

| Original Score: B | Dec 20, 2021

You feel the weight of the past in the detached stoicism and intermittent rage of Sandra Bullock's performance [in this] study in steady gray trauma [yet] a faceoff between Bullock and Viola Davis provides an unforgettable spark.

| Dec 20, 2021