2012 · drama · thriller
Compliance
Directed by Craig Zobel1h 30m2012
On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.
Our read: Compliance (2012) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- twisty
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