In February 1977, 44-year-old Tony Kiritsis entered the Indianapolis headquarters of the Meridian Mortgage Company, kidnapped VP Richard Hall at gunpoint and kept him hostage in his apartment for 63 hours. It was, landowner Kiritsis asserted, not about money, but about publicising the appalling way he had been treated by the company. For his first feature in seven years, director Gus Van Sant turns this fascinating true crime story into both an entertaining period drama and an evergreen tale of ordinary men pushed into desperate acts.

Nikki Baughan, Screen Daily