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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 18 Sep 2013

In addition to the skin-crawling camera moves and the understated dread that bolsters the surface tensions of Prisoners there is a fascinating…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 18 Sep 2013

This movie pushes us into the tight corners of law enforcement, as well as parenthood, where black and white simply does not exist…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 18 Sep 2013

Roger Deakins, probably the best living cinematographer never to win an Oscar (he’s 0-for-10), was behind the camera…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 18 Sep 2013

Before you discount the movie as a metaphysical mediation on violence, know that it is also a superbly tense thriller, and one of the most…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 18 Sep 2013

Grim, gray and surprisingly gruesome, Prisoners - the director's first foray into English-language filmmaking - has its flaws, but predictability…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 18 Sep 2013

Prisoners is infused with a poetic intensity that's rare in American thrillers…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 18 Sep 2013

Prisoners has the momentum of a thriller but it's carefully constructed so that it is also a movie that asks pointed questions about morality…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 18 Sep 2013

Prisoners is a dark, deeply serious examination of how loss can unhinge us; it grabs onto you, and you may have trouble shaking it away…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 18 Sep 2013

Loki is a skilled creation, but lacking that sense of why, it's hard not to think of him as an artistic construct rather than a character…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 18 Sep 2013

The cast is remarkable. Five of the seven principal cast members own previous Oscar nominations…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Sep 2013

Even with the stretched-out running time, Prisoners is one of the most intense moviegoing experiences of the year. You’ll never forget it…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 18 Sep 2013

As gripping as it is grueling, with performances that swing for the fences and a central mystery that seems an unresolvable tangle of knots…

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By Mara Reinstein (308) for Us Weekly (308) on 18 Sep 2013

A frustrating puzzle in which the pieces don't quite fit together…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 18 Sep 2013

It's a potboiler premise, but in this uncompromisingly dark telling it veers from the procedural to something deeper and more tragic…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 18 Sep 2013

Easy answers are hard to come by, but that ambiguity elevates Prisoners to a place most other genre exercises rarely achieve ... or even aspire…

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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Sep 2013

It's difficult to remember a recent movie that soared so high, before plummeting with a series of bad story choices…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 18 Sep 2013

Dano, Bello, Howard, Davis and Leo — the last nearly unrecognizable — are equally strong…

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By M. E. Russell (386) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 18 Sep 2013

At its best, Prisoners dwells on the ways the characters affected by the case are held mentally captive -- by conviction, compulsion, procedure,…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 18 Sep 2013

Prisoners is the kind of movie that can quiet a room full of casual thrill-seekers…

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By David Hiltbrand (183) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 18 Sep 2013

A devastating psychological thriller, Prisoners pulls us deep into our worst fear: the Amber Alert. Then it holds us under…

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