The Guilty

Does just enough to keep you engaged but nothing more.

Gyllenhaal works hard to make Baylor a more conflicted character. Yet in humanizing him the film also reduces an institutional failing into an individual one.

Gyllenhaal's best performance since his phenomenal turn in Nightcrawler. The adaption itself does however fail to make a convincing argument for its existence.

If you come to this Netflix remake first, you are going to be blown away by a hurricane-force performance from Gyllenhaal.

Nails the setup, but there's still the matter of generating a tight enough plot to justify Jake Gyllenhaal's grand efforts. And that's where the picture runs into trouble.

"The Guilty" gets less and less plausible, not least of all in how neatly it ties together various plot elements.

Antione Fuqua’s remake of The Guilty has some thrilling moments, thanks to Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance&#59; however, it lacks the impact of the original and doesn’t have the purpose of being.

Jake Gyllenhaal continues to show that he is one of the best actors working in the industry right now, and even with the tonal issues and the blunders at the end, there is plenty of things to enjoy and to keep yourself invested for a short runtime.

Fans of the original will feel like they have been put on hold listening to the same piece of music on a 90 minute loop but for new audiences, this is an edge-of-your-seat thriller than you won’t want to hang up on.

{Gyllenhaal's} unhinged turn that you can practically see mentally come apart at the seams. It’s one of his best.