Prisoners
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: September 20, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 53 Critic Reviews
Positive:
41
Mixed:
9
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireDan JolinSep 23, 2013
A decent, cogent, greyly atmospheric thriller with something to say about War-On-Terror America. Read full review
60
NPRIan BuckwalterSep 20, 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. The same goes for Prisoners, a work of impressive craftsmanship that winds up making us think too much about how it was fashioned rather than what it has to say. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichSep 17, 2013
The uniformly showy performances (Acting with a capital ‘A’) are what do in Prisoners more than anything. Read full review
60
TimeRichard CorlissSep 9, 2013
This is the rough cut of a good movie, and a splendid opportunity wasted. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadaySep 19, 2013
Try as it might to entertain serious notions of manhood, evil and original sin, Prisoners works most effectively as Hollywood hypocrisy at its most sleek, efficient and meretricious. It’s stylish, high-minded hokum. Read full review
50
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 18, 2013
It is well acted bunk, led by Hugh Jackman's righteous raging as the father of a missing girl, abducting a suspect (Paul Dano) to pummel and scald a confession from him. If only solving the case and ending this movie sooner was that simple. Read full review
40
CineVuePatrick GambleNov 9, 2016
A handsomely crafted, yet overacted revenge tale with a broken moral compass, Prisoners fails to build upon its taut atmosphere of suspense with anything of particular social value. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonSep 17, 2013
Torn between making sense and arguing that the world itself makes no sense, Prisoners is a captive of its own ambitions. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeySep 6, 2013
Flexing some of that Jean Valjean resolve, but with a payload of untrammelled, Wolverine-like rage behind it, Jackman comes closest to shouldering the movie, without ever seriously threatening to make it work. Read full review
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