Review of Prisoners (2013) by John Anderson for Wall Street Journal — 18 Sep 2013
There's a near-sacred history in Hollywood of non-U.S.- born directors providing fresh perspectives on America. Miloš Forman. Alfred Hitchcock. Ang Lee. Ernst Lubitsch. Billy Wilder. For Prisoners, a stress-inducing trip into child abduction, the director is Quebecois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, who gives us an American "hero" guaranteed to push many buttons, many times, and who might not have been allowed to be quite so awful, under a different director's lens.
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This review of Prisoners (2013) was written by John Anderson and published by Wall Street Journal on 18 Sep 2013.
Prisoners has generally received very positive reviews.
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