The Guardian reviews This Tempting Madness, a psychological thriller directed by Jennifer E Montgomery, in which Mia (Simone Ashley) wakes from a coma after falling several storeys from an airport building and struggles to determine whether her husband, Jake (Austin Stowell), currently in jail, pushed her. The film builds a tense, claustrophobic study of mutual gaslighting as Mia's family, particularly her brother Ajay (Suraj Sharma), urge her to leave Jake, while she wrestles with guilt over having dismissed his earlier paranoid unravelling that led the couple to relocate from New York to Los Angeles.

The review praises Montgomery's visual flair, likening moments of the film to Hitchcock's Vertigo, and highlights recurring motifs such as Mia's fall in a tangerine dress and circular imagery symbolising cycles of abuse. However, the critic notes the plot loses grip on Mia's inner state at points and ends on a jarringly abrupt note, meaning it falls short of true Hitchcockian sophistication, with Ajay's character left underused. Overall, it is described as a "pleasingly potboilerish" but imperfect exploration of toxic co-dependency.