Compliance (movie)

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Compliance Magnolia, $26.98; Blu-ray, $29.98 Available on VOD beginning Jan. 8 Craig Zobel's film dramatizes that bizarre news story from a few years back about a restaurant manager who forced an employee to strip on the orders of a man...

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*** (out of four) Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's probably not standard procedure at fast food restaurants to conduct a strip search of an employee just because a police officer calls and demands it. Especially when the man on the phone asks...

The very antonym of "fun," writer-director Craig Zobel's new film "Compliance" is one of the toughest sits of the movie year 2012. But it's an uncompromising and, in its way, honorable drama built upon a prank call that goes on and on, getting worse and...