This slow burn psychological thriller about two men linked by a secret past threatens to derail on two or three occasions - into melodrama, into bad taste, into meaninglessness - but the ultimate gift of The Gift, written and directed by Australian wonder Joel Edgerton, is that it always knows exactly what it is doing, in the end delivering a profound reckoning for a deeply flawed bad guy.
★★★★☆
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