I Came By is a 2022 British crime thriller film written, co-produced and directed by British-Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari.

The film stars George MacKay, Percelle Ascott, Kelly Macdonald and Hugh Bonneville.

[1][2][3] Toby Nealey is a politically minded, 23-year-old graffiti artist who breaks into the homes of upper-class individuals and leaves behind the message "I CAME BY" on the walls.

The letter spurs the police to visit Blake's home again and they find the basement prison, which he claims is a "panic room".

The website's critics consensus reads, "Although it falls a fair bit shy of its Hitchcockian ambitions, I Came By gets a major boost from Hugh Bonneville's excellent against-type performance.

[5] John Nugent for Empire magazine praised Bonneville's performance, but criticised the blunt political messaging, described the cinematography as "flat", and the final product as "messy".

[6] Noel Murray similarly praised Bonneville in the Los Angeles Times, and noted that the narrative's shift to different characters kept the film "unpredictable", but also harmed the pacing and tension.

[7] Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com felt the film was too ambitious, and had "the opposite problem of so many mini-series on the streaming service in that it has a TV season worth of ideas crammed into its runtime."

[8] Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent similarly critiqued the lack of focus in the film's messages, stating it was "a well-intentioned work scrambling to find its voice.