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Movie Review for Gone Baby Gone
Movie Review for
Gone Baby Gone
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75 Reviews total.
Release date: 10/19/2007
Run length: 115 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Crime/Gangster
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Adaptation
Summary:
Two young private detectives are hired to take a closer look at the mysterious disappearance of a little girl and soon discover that nothing is what it seems. Ultimately, they will have to risk everything -- their relationship, their sanity, and even their lives -- to find a little girl-lost.
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (7/0)
Gone Baby Gone goes beyond just being a good mystery. This is a film with something vali...
By
Brian Webster
of Apollo Guide (7/0)
The story includes too many twists, resulting in a sense of contrivance by film's end. Yet this i...
By
Philip Martin
of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (7/0)
... a terrific, gripping and startlingly effective thriller. The power of the drama and the excel...
By
Michael Sragow
of Baltimore Sun (7/0)
A compelling, sometimes terrifying, and, on occasion, bleakly funny urban mystery about failure.
By
Christopher Smith
of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/0)
After seeing Ben Affleck's solid directorial debut in "Gone Baby Gone," maybe it's time to sugges...
By
Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (7/0)
...a sharp, morally ambiguous piece of pulp crackerjack.
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Bryant Frazer
of Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus (7/0)
Casey Affleck looks like a lost boy trying hard to do the right thing; you can see the spark of m...
By
Fred Topel
of Can Magazine (7/0)
Ben Affleck's script achieves the feeling of a novel with its sprawling story, but it is achieved...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
There are dark regions below the surface of the story.
By
Michael Phillips
of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
Afflecks unite in almost-there flick.
By
Todd Hertz
of Christianity Today (7/0)
By marrying an intense thriller with bigger issues and a three-dimensional lead, Gone Baby Gone i...
By
Jules Brenner
of Cinema Signals (7/0)
Director Affleck's noirishly stylized film weighs heavily under a dense vision of lies, secrets a...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Boo Allen
of Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (7/0)
Steeped in atmospherics and with few false steps.
By
N.V. Cooper
of E! Online (7/0)
...easily one of the best movies of the year.
By
Peter Sobczynski
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
Ben Affleck does such a surprisingly effective job behind the cameras that someone unfamiliar wit...
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (7/0)
Despite generic limitations of the adapted novel and lack of smooth storytelling, film has merits...
By
Vince Koehler
of Entertainment Spectrum (7/0)
Ben Affleck really surprised me with this one.
By
Lisa Schwarzbaum
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
...Affleck the director shows excellent instincts...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
A riveting mystery/thriller ... absorbing and carefully constructed.
By
Pete Vonder Haar
of Film Threat (7/0)
Amanda's neighborhood is the kind of place where Will Hunting would've gotten an icepick in the n...
By
Sean O'Connell
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
...a taut and dangerous adaptation...
By
Victoria Alexander
of FilmsInReview.com (7/0)
A terrific morally-challenged crime tale aptly directed by Ben Affleck.
By
Brent Simon
of FilmStew.com (7/0)
Affleck has smartly gone and selected a place which he knows well and a source text that assays i...
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
The bleak victory here is in Affleck's wickedly unforgiving eye for the insularity of neighborhoo...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Bill Clark
of FromTheBalcony (7/0)
Gone Baby Gone is a sterling thriller, the kind of raw cinematic power that you tell your friends...
By
Kirk Honeycutt
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
Mordant, melancholic but impressive debut for director Affleck.
By
Gary Brown
of Houston Community Newspapers (7/0)
...absolutely absorbing.
By
Stax
of IGN Movies (7/0)
A morality play disguised as a murder-mystery, Gone Baby Gone asks some powerful questions about ...
By
Steve Rhodes
of Internet Reviews (7/0)
Although it's far from the masterpiece of crime drama that most critics would lead you to believe...
By
Bob Bloom
of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
Gone Baby Gone will haunt you because it does not offer any pat answers or resolutions. It is lik...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Jeanne Kaplan
of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (7/0)
This is Ben's debut as a director and he does an admirable job. Of course, with such a stellar ca...
By
Kyle Smith
of KyleSmithOnline.com (6/1)
A bitterly sublime neo-noir: It's Beantown, Jake. Affleck has made us breathe the rot his charact...
By
Andy Klein
of Los Angeles CityBeat (7/0)
... too much plot for its own good, but the underlying moral issues are handled delicately enoug...
By
Bob Strauss
of Los Angeles Daily News (7/0)
Superb ethical drama in the guise of a wrenching, kidnapped child mystery.
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (7/0)
The third act is a labyrinth of past transgressions coming to light and shady character motivatio...
By
Pete Hammond
of Maxim (7/0)
Ben Affleck may not have made the wisest acting choices in recent years ('Gigli, anyone?) but her...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (7/0)
A powerful exploration of the gray areas between means and ends.
By
Michael Dequina
of Mr. Brown's Movies (7/0)
The overall sense of authenticity makes the Gone Baby Gone cut all the more deep.
By
David Edelstein
of New York Magazine (7/0)
Casey Affleck has never had a pedestal like the one his brother provides him, and he earns it.
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (7/0)
...a twisty, morally ambiguous and satisfying neo-noir...
By
Armond White
of New York Press (7/0)
So far this year, no other movie has more risible dialogue.
By
Manohla Dargis
of New York Times (7/0)
...a satisfyingly tough look into conscience, to those dark places where some men also go astray.
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Scott Tobias
of Onion AV Club (7/0)
Gone Baby Gone quietly accumulates in power, leading to one of the more subtly devastating final ...
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (7/0)
Lehane's superb plotting serves the director well, and Affleck's unblinking view of the world he ...
By
Cole Haddon
of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
The older Affleck makes a fine turn behind the camera, utilizing Boston as a character much like ...
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
Ben Affleck's credible but flawed directorial debut is based on a grim Beantown thriller from the...
By
Jeanne Aufmuth
of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
A gritty expose of the shady shards of right and wrong.
By
Jon Popick
of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
Affleck's non-acting effort is dark, scuzzy, and authentic.
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Bill Gibron
of PopMatters (5/2)
By capturing a sense of society lost, by using both the media focus and the behind closed doors d...
By
Mark R. Leeper
of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
Ben Affleck's first feature film as director turns out to be a much better film than mo...
By
Gary Goldstein
of Reel.com (7/0)
While less successful than the similarly-themed Mystic River -- which was also adapted from a Leh...
By
Michelle Orange
of Reeler (7/0)
The film doesn't fully click into the register Affleck seems to be going for -- that of a talky, ...
By
Frank Wilkins
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
'Gone Baby Gone' is a sobering, unreserved affair that manages maximum effectiveness despite a fe...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
...powerful stuff - a movie that derives its plot twists from moral conundrums rather than from n...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Carla Meyer
of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
[An] accomplished directorial debut.
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
[Ben Affleck] steeps the movie in the neighborhoods of the city - the bars and alleyways, where a...
By
Mick LaSalle
of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
Even bit players are detailed and vivid.
By
Eric Melin
of Scene-Stealers.com (7/0)
[It] really shines...when it's contrasting the self-righteousness of its characters.
By
Gina Carbone
of Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (7/0)
I'm torn between thinking there should be more films like this or fewer. I love the moral discuss...
By
Sean McBride
of Sean the Movie Guy (7/0)
a riveting crime drama, wisely populated with a top-shelf cast and based on a harrowing Dennis Le...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
The movie has some strong scenes and compelling performances...
By
Brian Tallerico
of UGO (7/0)
It turns out that we've had our Afflecks mixed up for years.
By
Enrique Buchichio
of Uruguay Total (7/0)
Ben Affleck se gradúa de director con un drama policial oscuro y hasta polémico, hábilmente narra...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (7/0)
...the film poses a fascinating moral dilemma within the context of the abduction of a 4-year-old...
By
Lisa Nesselson
of Variety (7/0)
Moral ambiguity is the real star of Ben Affleck's helming debut, Gone Baby Gone, an involving Bos...
By
Jim Ridley
of Village Voice (7/0)
In his strikingly downbeat directorial debut, Affleck has created something of a blue-moon rarity...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Willie Waffle
of WaffleMovies.com (7/0)
strong directorial debut by a guy who could use a break, and proves he has what it takes to be in...
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (3/4) No reference
Ben Affleck makes a strong directorial debut, but the film could use some finesse.
By
Connie Ogle
of Miami Herald (3/4) No reference
A film that indicates its first-time director knows what he's doing.
By
Shawn Levy
of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
It's as real as life and death and, just as that implies, often unpleasant to consider -- just li...
By
Nick Rogers
of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (3/4) No reference
The whodunit is predictable. Its ambivalent, bittersweet fallout is not. Ben Affleck has delivere...
By
Lori Hoffman
of Atlantic City Weekly (6/1) Not Reachable
Under the shrewd eye of director Affleck, the film allows layers of details to work their magic, ...
Reviews of Gone Baby Gone
By
Lawrence Toppman
of Charlotte Observer (3/4) Not Reachable
Ben Affleck, whose taste in projects as an actor has been questionable at best, has directed his ...
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (3/4) Not Reachable
Convoluted plotting inhibits clarity, with editing that resembles cut-and-paste jobs.
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/4) Not Reachable
It's not a feel-good film, but it's terrific.
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