Synopsis
A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.
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Cast
- Olivia WildeSadie
- Morgan SpectorSadie's Husband
- Tonye PatanoCounselor Beverly
- Judy MarteStraight Up Shelter Woman
- Betsy AidemAndrea Shaund
- C.J. WilsonMichael Shaund
- Chuck CooperLawyer
- Kyle CatlettZach
- Estefania TejedaCounseling Group Woman #1
- Cheryse DyllanCharlene Jackson
Recommendations
- 88
RogerEbert.com
The evident smallness of the production belies its power to disturb. It's like one of those knives that are small enough to be hidden in a coat sleeve or the lip of a boot but that can still cut a man's throat. - 80
We Got This Covered
A Vigilante succeeds not by exploiting torture, but instead shifting focus to Olivia Wilde's painful, so very real performance. - 80
Variety
As an actress, Olivia Wilde has been something of a shape-shifter, but in this movie she seems to be burning through all her previous roles to find something essential. She grabs hold of the spectacle of agonized female anger, and does it with a grace and power that easily matches that of Frances McDormand in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” - 75
The Playlist
Sober, unflinching and fits perfectly with the current political movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp. - 75
Observer
After "Enough" and five "Death Wish" movies, the revenge genre is not without its recurring clichés, many of which get defrosted and microwaved again in A Vigilante. The point, if there is one, is that “heinous criminal felonies are acceptable if they are justified by a woman driven beyond the limits of reason.” As one battered wife says, “Every graveyard is full of people who didn’t make it.” The same is true of old movies gathering dust in Hollywood film vaults. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A Vigilante offers some grim, imaginary satisfactions in support of real survivors who need whatever help we can give. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The two sides of A Vigilante are ultimately held together by Wilde’s ferocious performance — which swings between steely control and eruptive emotion — and by the way Dagger-Nickson frames nearly every moment from Sadie’s perspective. - 70
The New York Times
Daggar-Nickson gestures in certain directions, but for the most part she avoids deeper, troubling questions about retribution and violence. Instead, she concentrates on the genre basics, as in the movie’s admirably hard-core final face-off.
