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Metascore
32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWith a slow, relentless buildup focused on sexual humiliation, Compliance intensifies the "requests" put on Sandra, and eventually other employees, to behave immorally in the name of cooperation.
- 83The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe subject matter is unrelentingly sordid yet the storytelling is so deadpan and understated that it's difficult, if not impossible, to dismiss it as exploitation or sexist provocation.
- 83The PlaylistTodd GilchristThe PlaylistTodd GilchristCompliance is as much a meta-textual gauntlet as it is a movie; its subject matter not only deserves, but demands to be discussed and argued about, rather than being simply accepted at face value.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweThe Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweLikely to spur discussions about workplace safety, employee rights and broader awareness of sexual predation, Compliance is also a suspenseful psychological drama for viewers prepared to tolerate its extremes.
- 80VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangIn taut, gripping and deeply disturbing fashion, writer-director Craig Zobel measures the depths to which rational individuals will sink to obey a self-anointed authority figure in Compliance.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfYou can't believe what you're watching: Compliance, true to its title, digs into the rarely explored subject of psychological acquiescence (behavioral scientist Stanley Milgram should get a cowriting credit), with common-sense dignity being the first casualty.
- 80Village VoiceSteve EricksonVillage VoiceSteve EricksonCompliance lets neither men nor women off the hook.
- Compliance develops an intriguing premise intelligently, inquisitively and uncomfortably.
- 70Boxoffice MagazineRay GreeneBoxoffice MagazineRay GreeneThe audience for this movie will have to be an adventurous one, and even then a substantial portion will be outraged by what they see.
- 12Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerIt seems as if Craig Zobel wants to implicate the audience in these proceedings, but he doesn't have a very clear idea how to go about it.