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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Sep 2013

Try as it might to entertain serious notions of manhood, evil and original sin, Prisoners works most effectively as Hollywood hypocrisy at…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 18 Sep 2013

Some will write off Prisoners as shameless exploitation…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 18 Sep 2013

It's a harrowing, excellent piece of work, narratively inconsistent in the final act but a film for which all flaws are easily overlooked by…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 18 Sep 2013

If the screenplay occasionally frustrates by not asking obvious questions...and by scattering red herrings that venture into really loopy territory…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 18 Sep 2013

Some will take it and like it, all the way to the heart of darkness. Others may feel they've been jacked with, manipulated…

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By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 18 Sep 2013

Villeneuve shows his sublime talents as a director who appreciates subtle dialogue and contained, intimate action…

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By Jon Niccum (520) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 18 Sep 2013

The final third has more in common with three-card monte street hustle than nuanced character drama…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 18 Sep 2013

A very good film, with two hours of extraordinary, gripping filmmaking and twenty final minutes of subtle deflation…

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By Paul Doro (69) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 18 Sep 2013

Spectacular performances and a series of frighteningly tense sequences elevate it above your typical Hollywood mystery…

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By Mike Russell (146) for Oregonian (1,550) on 18 Sep 2013

A fascinating, skillfully directed, overpoweringly atmospheric mystery…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 18 Sep 2013

Every actor in Prisoners blossoms with realistic restraint under Villeneuve's refined direction…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Sep 2013

Prisoners uncoils with a serpent's stealth - and strikes just as suddenly…

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By Sam Adams (514) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 18 Sep 2013

What makes Prisoners more potent than its oft-implausible mystery should allow is the way Villeneuve lingers over the textures of a terrible event…

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By Stephen Silver (684) for EntertainmentTell (372) on 18 Sep 2013

Great acting, in the service of a plot that keeps getting more ridiculous. I was with it until the snakes…

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By Justin Craig (142) for FoxNews.com (142) on 18 Sep 2013

A blisteringly intense master-class in suspense and character…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) 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 Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Sep 2013

Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal burn the candle at both ends in this emotionally whipsawing kidnapped-child thriller with an unusually strong…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 18 Sep 2013

It makes for a compelling viewing experience, thanks to Villeneuve’s formal chops and the uniformly strong performances…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 18 Sep 2013

Unflinching and intense, it's an intricate thriller evoking complex emotional conflict, moral ambiguity and sustained psychological suspense…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 18 Sep 2013

The script is misshapen and out of balance..Bello disappears for vast chunks of time..The rest of the cast all seem like bystanders to the…

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