'Compliance' ★ ★ ★ : When a stranger calls at work

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 worse for the people on the other end of the line. Zobel's question is simple: How could this have happened?

Michael Phillips

August 30, 2012