Why has The Missing Person persisted in staying with me, even though I started craving The Big Sleep halfway through?
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11/24/09
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Missing Person (2009)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:7
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.3/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Nov 20, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: Premiering at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, THE MISSING PERSON is a present-day film noir where there isn’t necessarily a bad guy or good guy but more of an internal fight of good and evil. ... [More]
Starring: Michael Shannon, Amy Ryan, Frank Wood, Linda Emond
Director: Noah Buschel
Reviews for Missing Person
1 - 12 (sorted by date)
Shannon's complete performance, he moves like The Elephant Man and enunciates like Mickey Rourke, allows Buschel to drift into David Lynch territory without getting drowned in it.
11/22/09
Sluggish, stylized and frequently washed in a bilious green tint, The Missing Person is yet oddly irresistible, its omnipresent anxiety like a musical chord that neither rises nor falls.
11/20/09
Top CriticThe moments that do undeniably work are overshadowed by a general feeling that the film just isn't quite clicking the way it could or should have, amplified by a final act that simply gets away from everyone involved.
11/20/09
“So you make jokes and smoke cigarettes,” a lady in the murk summarizes. Yeah. Isn’t that enough?
11/20/09
Top CriticShannon’s performance takes The Missing Person as far as it goes, but when a real-world tragedy commandeers the story, Buschel’s thin pastiche falls to pieces.
11/19/09
neither the existential 70s crime thriller it wants to be nor the apocalyptic fever dream it could have been
11/19/09
A reasonable approximation of the style, capturing Shannon at his most coolly insular.
11/19/09
Not the most riveting of noir dramas, this film exists mainly to project the talents of Michael Shannon in the role of a drunk private eye.
11/18/09
Though Ryan Samul’s textured cinematography makes the stubble and shadows seem nearly 3-D, the story chokes on a dull twist from Rosow’s past.
11/18/09
All of which is well and artsy, but doesn't diminish the sense, once the mystery has untangled, that the film has been gesturing toward a profundity that isn't there.
11/17/09
Top CriticA drab, pale-looking affair without a trace of visual style, this cross-country pursuit yarn fights a losing battle to sustain viewer attention via narrative alone, so much does it flounder for lack of imagistic flair.
02/06/09
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