
White-collar business professional, happily married accidentally commits a crime. Sentenced to prison time, he must adjust and learn the ways of prison life. Throughout this, he struggles to do what's best for his family on the outside. The choices he makes in prison will have major repercussions, both to himself and his family, if he makes the wrong one.... (Full plot summary below)
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White-collar business professional, happily married accidentally commits a crime. Sentenced to prison time, he must adjust and learn the ways of prison life. Throughout this, he struggles to do what's best for his family on the outside. The choices he makes in prison will have major repercussions, both to himself and his family, if he makes the wrong one.
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| New York ObserverRex ReedUnflinchingly written and directed by Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh, it’s too unnerving to recommend to the squeamish, but for anyone curious enough to find out what really happens to turn decent people into savages in the bedlam of the American prison system, this is one for the must-see list. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawMy expectations here were tepid. But Shot Caller turns out to be a really taut, tense, prison-set thriller, a little like Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and longform television such as Breaking Bad or The Wire. |
| The ListEmma SimmondsThe melancholic brand of machismo and Coster-Waldau's affecting turn never fail to mesmerise in a film that consistently foregrounds the human cost of crime. |
| Film Journal InternationalEdward DouglasA brilliantly made film, unlike anything else out there, and it teaches a valuable lesson about what the penal system's cycle of violence can do to an honest man. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferCaptivating and emotionally gritty with a raw, commanding performance by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. |
| 3AWJim SchembriA tightly packed, top-shelf crime drama with a great cast. |
| Punch Drunk CriticsTravis HopsonThe particulars are nothing we haven't seen before, but it's the deep characterization of Waldau's character that sets Shot Caller apart. |
| Under the RadarKyle MullinThe film feels akin to a Sons of Anarchy episode without that series' melodrama, depicting an unrealistic, thoroughly macho plot with grounded visuals and performances. |
| Village VoicePete Vonder HaarShot Caller is Coster-Waldau’s show, and he’s up to the task. |
| The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberShot Caller may cover little new ground but navigates familiar terrain with considerable skill. |