The Disappearance of Alice Creed
A Bigger Boat | Release Date: August 6, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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12
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
A compact British drama that does more with only three people and a few modest settings than most movies do with computerized bloat and a cast of hundreds. Read full review
100
Boxoffice MagazinePam Grady
Dazzling turns by stars Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston and Gemma Arterton; unrelenting suspense; and a wealth of black humor will appeal to an arthouse crowd, though the violence and other unsavory aspects of the story will turn off some. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Taut, superbly executed and consistently engrossing, The Disappearance of Alice Creed marks an auspicious feature debut for writer-director J Blakeson. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The film is delicious, welcome, and entirely satisfying and, as an added bonus, far and away the best genre-fan date movie of the year. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
The best Brit noir since "Croupier" is a complex, marvellously twisty thriller. Read full review
75
ObserverRex Reed
A grim, toxic, psychological British thriller, brimming with surprises, that always manages to be quite a bit more than it appears on the surface. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
As intense and as harrowing as any British thriller to emerge from the east side of the Atlantic in recent years, and there are some good titles vying for that distinction. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
A clever little contraption, even though it runs into the problem that a lot of twist-heavy suspense movies have: Once it's spooned out all its surprises about two-thirds of the way through, it loses a lot of its entertainment value. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark Feeney
Alice Creed isn't as good as Tarantino's directorial debut, or another movie it calls to mind, "A Simple Plan.'' But the genetic resemblance to those two films indicates how good much of this extremely assured picture is. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMike Hale
The Disappearance of Alice Creed will keep your attention, but you may walk away thinking you've seen something like it before: "Sleuth," with more sex and violence. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis Harvey
Crisp handling, some clever twists and a welcome streak of dry humor hold attention throughout Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
It wants to be a movie about the intersection between criminality and the class system but, for that, it could have used a bit more class. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
Crisply and efficiently, we're transported to the realm of the kidnapping thriller--and if Brit writer-director J Blakeson knew how to sustain tension for another hour and change, we'd be heralding the next Jonathan "Sexy Beast" Glazer.
60
NPRIan Buckwalter
A skilled cast is Blakeson's greatest asset in his attempt to elevate his material above its pulpy limitations. All three are better actors than this sort of movie might call for. Read full review
60
EmpireKim Newman
A small but perfectly formed crime drama. And, without making a fuss, a proper nail-biter, too. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
The writer-director, who goes by the name J Blakeson, keeps the suspense level high for the first hour or so, but he then indulges in a few plot twists that strain credibility. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A glum British kidnap movie in which writer-director J Blakeson manages to generate tension and some suspense, never rises above the mechanical and contrived, finally lapsing into the improbable. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A brutally monotonous thriller. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyEric Hynes
Blakeson's feature-length calling card has storyboarded austerity and sadomasochistic promise but in the end lets the game play out in a familiar flurry of double-crossings, two-timings and false deaths, content to only fetishize itself. Read full review
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