Captain Phillips Reviews
Blu-ray.com
A riveting picture, but one that seems like a safe choice for Greengrass, presented in a way that's familiar to those already intimate with his work.
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| Original Score: B
Top CriticGreengrass and screenwriter Billy Ray put us on the side of Phillips, his crew, the American negotiators, the Navy, and the SEALS. But we understand the greater tragedy of Muse and the Somalis' lives.
CinemaBlend.com
True stories this remarkable are rare, and movies about them that work this well are even rarer.
Seven Days
In another director's hands, this script might have come across as didactic. ... But Ray's words play effective counterpoint to Greengrass' visceral approach.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Cinema Signals
Once again, never a dull moment with Tom Hanks. And, once again, a history lesson through thrilling drama. I went home appreciating all that's been done here.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Bloomberg News
Whether you like the movie ... is almost irrelevant. It gets going so fast, and with such force, that there's too much else to think about.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
As cinema it plays a lot like a knockoff of "Zero Dark Thirty," without the same ambition and scale and with dramatically lower stakes.
IGN Movies
Not so much a movie you watch as a movie you survive.
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| Original Score: 8.8/10
ColeSmithey.com
The grueling 2009 kidnapping ordeal suffered by U.S. cargo-ship captain Richard Phillips comes to tangible life in Paul Greengrass's nonstop nail-biter. Nerves will be rattled.
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| Original Score: A-
Film-Forward.com
With its twists and turns and at 99 minutes, A Hijacking outsmarts the 132-minute long Captain Phillips.
Spirituality and Practice
A solid portrait of a middle-aged caption of a hijacked cargo ship man who possesses the right stuff for surviving a hellish four-day ordeal.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Telegraph
Paul Greengrass has the rare gift of working with action-thriller material and making something cohesive, layered and complex from it.
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| Original Score: 4/5
It's a Hollywood-style A Hijacking for dummies.
Slant Magazine
It works too hard to keep matters on an even, we're-all-more-alike-than-different keel, which is just one part of its chief problem of forcefully conveying information and intent.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The Playlist
The white-knuckled immediacy Greengrass delivers to every scene is transportive, dropping you like a passenger, gagged and bound, into this extremely volatile situation. The fear, panic and emotional pain every character endures is utterly tangible.
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| Original Score: A
Arguably Greengrass' best film, and almost certainly his most urgent.
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| Original Score: 8.9/10
ScreenCrush
[Hanks'] performance in the third act might be a career best.
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| Original Score: 9/10
ComingSoon.net
Paul Greengrass has created another gripping thriller with clear intentions to create as realistic a portrayal of actual events as possible.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Screen International
An enthralling and beautifully made action-drama driven by an absorbing lead performance from Tom Hanks ...
HeyUGuys
This is a epic uber tense triumph!
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| Original Score: 5/5
