The Forgiven
Saban Films | Release Date: March 9, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMar 9, 2018
The most powerful scene in the movie, and the one that most fully encompasses its meaning, belongs to Mrs. Morobe (the marvelous Thandi Makhubele). Read full review
63
Slant MagazineOleg IvanovMar 5, 2018
Roland Joffé's film is largely successful in its attempt to grapple with the terrible truths of apartheid and its legacy. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 8, 2018
Featuring excellent performances by Forest Whitaker as Tutu and Eric Bana as an imprisoned racist government death-squad assassin seeking clemency, The Forgiven tackles its important political and social issues in an overly talky fashion. Read full review
50
Screen DailyWendy IdeMar 8, 2018
The Forgiven is a decidedly uneven piece of work. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 8, 2018
Tutu and Blomfeld's confrontations have vigor and commitment but don't build to the requisite catharsis. Read full review
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennyMar 8, 2018
When the movie can stay out of its own way, it delivers some powerful scenes, including one in which Blomfeld faces down a would-be assassin (Nandiphile Mbeshu, superb) in a prison shower room. But beyond that, the movie offers conventional gratifications and no surprises. Read full review
40
VarietyGuy LodgeMar 8, 2018
It’s Eric Bana, cast as a fictionalized composite of various white-supremacist apartheid criminals, who comes closest to electrifying proceedings in what’s at heart a one-room two-hander, unconvincingly padded and populated for the big screen. Read full review
30
Village VoiceCraig D. LindseyMar 8, 2018
Unfortunately, this movie has so many damn things percolating all through it that it ultimately seems unfocused and painfully earnest. Read full review
0
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsMar 9, 2018
The Forgiven consequently only succeeds as an ugly, empty-headed provocation. Read full review
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