Mark Kermode, Observer film critic 

Return to Sender review – assured revenge thriller

Gone Girl’s Rosamund Pike brings icy zeal to her role as a rape survivor who starts visiting her assailant in jail
  
  

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Rosamund Pike makes a prison visit in Return to Sender. Photograph: Patti Perret Photograph: Patti Perret/PR

Rosamund Pike lends A-list heft to this off-kilter exploiter about a rape survivor who visits her assailant in prison, where he comes to believe that she holds a redemptive candle for him. Things are clearly not what they seem and you keep wondering exactly when this is going to turn into Hard Candy. Nick Nolte lends wounded-bear support as the father torn apart by his inability to protect his daughter, but Gone Girl Pike is more than a match for any man and director Fouad Mikati taps into her icy zeal with aplomb.

 

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