Los Angeles Times
Bullock's against-type casting counterbalances a story that sometimes slips and slides into narrative coincidence.
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The Unforgivable
Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock leads this society-at-odds story as a woman released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime. However, her attempts to readjust clashes with those who aren't willing to forgive her past actions. Co-stars fellow Oscar winner Viola Davis, Jon Bernthal and Vincent D'Onofrio.
2021Rating: M, Mature themes, violence and coarse language112 minsUSA, Germany, UKConstruction Film
Drama
The Unforgivable / Reviews
The Guardian
(A) compressed and contrived adaptation of Sally Wainwright’s miniseries Unforgiven...
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Hollywood Reporter
The biggest hurdle facing The Unforgivable is that we’ve seen more effective versions of downbeat stories like this before.
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The Globe and Mail
Bullock convincingly creates a shell of wariness and self-protection, and then gradually lets it crack.
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A.V. Club
Neither Ruth nor anybody else (with the minor, welcome exception of... Jon Bernthal) feels like a credible human being driven by recognisable impulses...
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