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Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...holds the attention for the first half, assisted by Heitor Dhalia's fat-free direction and Amanda Seyfried's evocative saucer-eyes. But by the end, viewers may be left pondering..." (Read the full review...) 96 words, 03/02/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: WEAK (cg) "...a substandard thriller that traps Amanda Seyfried in the role of Jill Parrish... director Heitor Dhalia merely recycles bump-in-the-night thriller tropes. There's no thrill in 'Gone' because you can see every surprise coming. It lies there flapping like a dying fish. Skip it." (Read the full review...) 139 words, 02/24/12
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: POOR "...moronic... In almost every scene, Ms. Seyfried delivers a frantic, one-note performance that neither capitalizes on the character's complicated medical history nor appears to be remotely connected to anyone else in the story." (Read the full review...) 266 words, 02/25/12 Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Gone is your hard-earned money if you buy a ticket to this slack piece of work... a beat-the-clock movie in which director Heitor Dhalia forgot to set the alarm." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 02/25/12 Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine: POOR "...it's always tough to spend most of a movie wondering whether the characters are morons and/or lunatics... we get an absurdist thriller that, played mostly straight, comes off as ludicrous and lame." (Read the full review...) 592 words, 02/27/12 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: POOR (cg) "...while 'Gone' has some visual style, the cheap and melodramatic script fails to make it to the party." (Read the full review...) 429 words, 02/25/12 Aaron Hillis, LA Weekly: POOR "...wholly preposterous and casually sexist... Mute the bombastic score and there'd be no suspense; do yourself a favor and shut your eyes, too." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 03/01/12 Andrew Dowler, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...delivers lots of tension and gives the thriller genre a twist by merging the designated victim from the woman-in-peril flick and the relentless hunter from the chase movie... a solid evening's entertainment." (Read the full review...) 184 words, 03/01/12
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "Been there, done that, bought the abductee-catharsis T-shirt." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 02/25/12 Roger Moore, Seattle Times: WEAK (cg) "...a thriller that feels sedate and slow, and a big payoff that feels like a cheat." (Read the full review...) 444 words, 02/25/12
Aaron Hillis, LA Weekly: POOR "...wholly preposterous and casually sexist... Mute the bombastic score and there'd be no suspense; do yourself a favor and shut your eyes, too." (Read the full review...) 233 words, 03/01/12 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: POOR (cg) "A logic-free, utterly joyless thriller that substitutes a wild goose chase for an actual plot... strands Seyfried in the thankless role as a maybe-crazy, maybe-correct woman hunting down the sister she believes is kidnapped..." (Read the full review...) 626 words, 02/24/12 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...moody but middling... Seyfried compellingly portrays a woman progressing from victimization to power. She needs a case worthy of her skills." (Read the full review...) 159 words, 03/01/12 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...it's never fully convincing in the way it lays out a bread-crumb trail for its suffering protagonist to follow to the truth. But it does find a little new life in a familiar formula." (Read the full review...) 483 words, 02/24/12 Jesse Hassenger, Pop Matters: MODERATE (cg) "...never commits to a full-fledged character study, and though it moves along at a tight clip with a dash of style, it's not dazzling as a thriller, either. It has fun within its confines..." (Read the full review...) 656 words, 02/28/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: GOOD (cg) "As vigilante thrillers go, 'Gone' is actually kind of subtle - perhaps too subtle.... The aura of slow-burning paranoia is the best thing about the picture..." (Read the full review...) 691 words, 02/24/12 R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant: WEAK (cg) "The script by Allison Burnett (who recently unleashed 'Underworld: Awakening') is a layer cake of easy plot propellers, iced with rib-tickling garbage like a wooded crime scene dubbed Forest Park..." (Read the full review...) 503 words, 02/25/12 Andrew Dowler, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...delivers lots of tension and gives the thriller genre a twist by merging the designated victim from the woman-in-peril flick and the relentless hunter from the chase movie... a solid evening's entertainment." (Read the full review...) 184 words, 03/01/12 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: POOR (cg) "...this sorry excuse for a film is laughable. If it merely wants to be an involving, provocative thriller... well, it fails miserably..." (Read the full review...) 640 words, 04/23/12
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: POOR "...moronic... In almost every scene, Ms. Seyfried delivers a frantic, one-note performance that neither capitalizes on the character's complicated medical history nor appears to be remotely connected to anyone else in the story." (Read the full review...) 266 words, 02/25/12 Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Gone is your hard-earned money if you buy a ticket to this slack piece of work... a beat-the-clock movie in which director Heitor Dhalia forgot to set the alarm." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 02/25/12
Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety: FAIR "...competently assembled but brings no special sensibility or panache to a script short on both; supporting turns and design contributions are likewise no more inspired than the material." (Read the full review...) 384 words, 02/24/12 John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "A thriller so fixated on red herrings that viewers may stop caring if anyone's really in danger... Such a pile-up of ambiguity, in the end, looks less like tricksterism than incompetent storytelling." (Read the full review...) 336 words, 02/24/12 Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: POOR "Gone is your hard-earned money if you buy a ticket to this slack piece of work... a beat-the-clock movie in which director Heitor Dhalia forgot to set the alarm." (Read the full review...) 334 words, 02/25/12 Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: POOR "...moronic... In almost every scene, Ms. Seyfried delivers a frantic, one-note performance that neither capitalizes on the character's complicated medical history nor appears to be remotely connected to anyone else in the story." (Read the full review...) 266 words, 02/25/12
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