Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
It's a concept that's more often the basis of arrested development comedies about late bloomers who finally come into their own, but there's nothing funny about how the past looms over the adults that Gordo and Simon have become.
– Alison Willmore,
BuzzFeed News,
10 Nov 2015
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The Gift chillingly illustrates what happens when fate reunites a class bully (Jason Bateman) with his prize victim, Gordo (Edgerton).
– Scott Marks,
San Diego Reader,
20 Aug 2015
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Clever and atmospheric, the film has enough twists to keep the average viewer guessing.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
14 Aug 2015
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Officially, this is a blank-from-hell movie. But Edgerton has remixed the formula.
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
13 Aug 2015
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The Gift starts out like so many other thrillers before it - with an attractive, well-to-do couple purchasing a big new house - and then beats its own, uniquely tense and twisted path from there.