The film takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center. Call operator Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger-but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out.... (Full plot summary below)
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The film takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center. Call operator Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger-but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out.
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| Original-CinKim HughesRarely do remakes capture the lightning in the bottle of the source material. But The Guilty does, no doubt in part because screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto, best known for the True Detective series, drafted Gustav Möller, who wrote the original screenplay for and directed the original. Whether a remake was needed remains debatable, but the vision remains intact. |
| TheWrapSteve PondFuqua, like Möller before him, doesn’t really give you time to sit back and think about it. The Guilty stays in one place but moves like a tough, efficient action flick; it’s a thrill ride in an office chair. |
| San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSo while Fuqua’s The Guilty is not much different from the original, his direction is crisp, Gyllenhaal’s performance grows on you and Riley Keough (Zola), as the voice of the woman who is abducted, is terrific. |
| EmpireAmon WarmannGyllenhaal flexes all his considerable acting muscles in this taut, tense thriller. One of the better remakes you’ll see. |
| Time OutStephen A. RussellIf director Antoine Fuqua thoroughly flubbed his remake of The Equalizer, he properly sticks the landing here. Seizing you from the outset, The Guilty refuses to let go until you’re gasping for breath. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisEssentially a one-man show, The Guilty necessarily vibrates to the rhythms of its lead. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekGyllenhaal’s Baylor is a man on the edge of time, reckoning with a deed he can’t take back and a possible future built on lies. Few actors can put this kind of raw yet strangely companionable self-loathing onscreen—and make you glad you didn’t avert your eyes, no matter how much you wanted to. |
| The PlaylistRodrigo PerezWhat makes The Guilty good is the way it tacitly communicates so much about the character without ever having to speak his issues out loud. |
| The Associated PressLindsey BahrGyllenhaal is absolutely commanding throughout the lean 91-minute runtime, a compelling ball of stress, anxiety and frustration working only with computer screens, phones and disembodied voices. It is no understatement that the success of The Guilty rests entirely on his shoulders. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Sarah-Tai BlackFuqua is reliable in his continued ability to craft tense and measured films for broad audiences looking for complicated tales of morality. |
