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Captives

Captives (The Captive)

2014

Atom Egoyan

Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Mireille Enos, Rosario Dawson ...

5.3

3,213

Thriller. Mystery 8 years after the disappearance of young Cassandra, some disturbing indications seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police and her parents will try to unravel the mystery of his disappearance.

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"A ludicrous abduction thriller that finds a once-great filmmaker slipping into previously unentered realms of self-parody (...) [It] makes the recent 'Prisoners' look like a masterpiece in retrospect"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"If his name weren't on the mess of a screenplay it might be easy to assume Egoyan took The Captive as a job for hire.There's no evidence of a personal investment"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"As a straight procedural, this might have worked if Egoyan did not try the audience's patience and insult their intelligence with how utterly implausible his drama is (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A shiveringly tense abduction thriller: half-opaque and bitingly cold like the surface of a frozen lake (...) This is Egoyan’s best film for a very long time (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"Surely an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Atom Egoyan can do better than this nasty and unconvincing thriller (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG

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