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Prisoners has an emotional complexity and a sense of dread that makes for absorbing (and disturbing) viewing.
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A superior thriller, made with real intelligence and raw feeling. January 31, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A superior thriller, made with real intelligence and raw feeling.
Leigh Paatsch
Villeneuve's direction saves Prisoners from falling into Alex Cross drivel. Like in Incendies, he knows how to keep a story moving and make us long for the truth. November 20, 2019 | Rating: 3.6/5 | Full Review…
Villeneuve's direction saves Prisoners from falling into Alex Cross drivel. Like in Incendies, he knows how to keep a story moving and make us long for the truth.
David Harris
Stuffed to the gills with child abduction, overmedicated depression and familial implosions, director Denis Villeneuve's bloated whodunit is a puppy suicide away from the most joyless way to spend well over two hours. August 27, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Stuffed to the gills with child abduction, overmedicated depression and familial implosions, director Denis Villeneuve's bloated whodunit is a puppy suicide away from the most joyless way to spend well over two hours.
Ryan Syrek
Occasionally I got lost in the labyrinthine plot twists, but at almost two-and-a-half hours there's not an ounce of fat on its gripping narrative. August 7, 2019 | Full Review…
Occasionally I got lost in the labyrinthine plot twists, but at almost two-and-a-half hours there's not an ounce of fat on its gripping narrative.
Brian D. Johnson
Gyllenhaal begins and ends with the same dogged determination, the same pessimism and thinly veiled anger, and the same moral center. Kudos to him, as the actor must build character subtext out of scant scripted development. July 31, 2019 | Full Review…
Gyllenhaal begins and ends with the same dogged determination, the same pessimism and thinly veiled anger, and the same moral center. Kudos to him, as the actor must build character subtext out of scant scripted development.
Leslie Combemale
Prisoners can be quite good when it chooses to be a regular thriller. Unfortunately it decides to try for more, and comes up short in doing so. June 22, 2019 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Full Review…
Prisoners can be quite good when it chooses to be a regular thriller. Unfortunately it decides to try for more, and comes up short in doing so.
C.J. Prince
A slow burning powder keg of mystery and emotion that winds up the audience and never lets it go. June 9, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A slow burning powder keg of mystery and emotion that winds up the audience and never lets it go.
Matthew Lucas
For all its bells and whistles, Prisoners feels more like a middle-of-the-road episode of "Law and Order" than a film that wants to be a mystery wrapped in a moral dilemma. April 9, 2019 | Full Review…
For all its bells and whistles, Prisoners feels more like a middle-of-the-road episode of "Law and Order" than a film that wants to be a mystery wrapped in a moral dilemma.
Micheal Compton
Attempting to present torture in a way that neither endorses nor condones the act, the film feels trapped in a sticky web of moral musing which it never fully comprehends. March 5, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Attempting to present torture in a way that neither endorses nor condones the act, the film feels trapped in a sticky web of moral musing which it never fully comprehends.
Patrick Gamble
Prisoners is watchable and holds attention, but for those not sold on its specific thoughts on religious good and evil, it winds up being more popcorn than profound by the finale. January 25, 2019 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
Prisoners is watchable and holds attention, but for those not sold on its specific thoughts on religious good and evil, it winds up being more popcorn than profound by the finale.
Abbie Bernstein
The movie is compelling but clumsy and would have benefited massively from an edit. November 6, 2018 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
The movie is compelling but clumsy and would have benefited massively from an edit.
Debbie Baldwin
Whenever you can set aside a few hours for this thing, go and see it. Just be prepared for it: this ain't a movie you can just casually watch. November 1, 2018 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
Whenever you can set aside a few hours for this thing, go and see it. Just be prepared for it: this ain't a movie you can just casually watch.
Jennifer Heaton
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