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The Guilty 2018

A minimalist, razor-sharp thriller that will have you gasping for air.

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Our Take (by Bilal Zouheir)

Before you press play on this movie, we highly recommend you take a few very deep breaths. This 2018 thriller is wound so tight, you will need the extra oxygen to get through it without fainting. In his directorial debut, Swedish-danish filmmaker Gustav Möller uses very little in terms of resources to create this breath-taking atmosphere. While The Guilty feels like it was made on a $100 million budget, all it physically brings to the table is one man in a dark room. It plays with our imagination instead of blinding it with special effects. Similarly, the plot is also short and sweet: a police officer is temporarily sent to do emergency dispatch, when he receives a call that turns an ordinary shift into a hell ride. This is all we are going to give away before you’ve completed your breathing exercises. The movie’s minimalist approach is held together by great acting from Jakob Cedergre, a screenplay to match, and incredible sound design. A real white-knuckle ride.

Notable Critics

""The Guilty" is smartly constructed and tautened with regular twists, but, if it were merely clever, it wouldn't test your nerves as it does."

— Anthony Lane

"Make the right call and watch this immediately."

— Gus Edgar

Synopsis

Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

Comments

  2. I’m Danish as is this movie, and I have to say: This is terrible acting. I watched and I couldn’t believe it’s on here.

    1. can you please give us a Danish movie that has a fantastic acting so that we can compare?

  7. Amazing. I started this movie laying on my bed, at some point the suspense has me sitting-up unable to lean back.

  8. The movie makes best use of sound and little bit of our imagination to create a gripping thriller, mystery and emotion.

  10. At times it felt too stretched apart from that it was a good movie and really good thriller

  11. Highly recommend. It’s not easy to make a suspenseful film with effectively one character on screen keeping the action going.

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Bilal Zouheir

Bilal Zouheir

Bilal Zouheir is the founder of A Good Movie to Watch. He is US-based and a member of the Nevada Film Critics Society. He grew up in Morocco, where he learned English from watching movies. Bilal's work with A Good Movie to Watch is focused on offering an alternative to streaming algorithms, which are often used as commercial tools by streaming services.