A great film in most every respect.
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06/03/04
The Missing (2003)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:98
Rotten:68
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: An expertly acted and directed Western. But like other Ron Howard features, the movie is hardly subtle.
Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $26,811,707
Synopsis: Director Ron Howard, who impressed audiences with BACKDRAFT (1991) and A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001), has outdone himself with THE MISSING, a wrenching family drama that unfolds in the midst of a classic... [More]
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Cate Blanchett, Evan Rachel Wood, Eric Schweig
Director: Ron Howard
Reviews for The Missing
21 - 40 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Tommy Lee always makes the film interesting and Blanchett is a standout.
05/26/04
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04/09/04
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03/01/04
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03/01/04
In 20 years it will probably be regarded as Howard's finest film.
02/13/04
...tips its 10-gallon hat to John Ford’s classic The Searchers, then takes its own unique path along the western genre trail...
02/05/04
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01/20/04
Top CriticHoward hasn't the conviction to make a truly tough-minded thriller. Instead, he indulges in every genre shortcut imaginable, resulting in a film that feels creakingly old the first time through.
01/15/04
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12/15/03
Had lesser actors been cast in the two lead roles, The Missing could have been no better than an average episode of Bonanza.
12/13/03
Even Cate Blanchett can't save this misbegotten horse opera.
12/12/03
Mr. Howard keeps the emotional temperature of the family reunion as chilly as possible, but it's clear that the father-daughter relationship is the core of the drama, and the rest is all time-consuming digressions.
12/10/03
a moody and arduously serious western psychodrama
12/09/03
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12/05/03
Strange and rather beautiful, “The Missing” is a non-traditional Western with a supernatural spin.
12/04/03
The rawest, scariest, most nerve-rattling saddlebags-and- sagebrush saga since Robert Mulligan's The Stalking Moon.
12/04/03
Armed with his Beautiful Mind Oscar, Ron Howard stretches his wings with this attempt at a dark, wholly adult western. I just wish it was a more successful one.
12/04/03
it’s The Searchers meets Dr. Phil as the move zig-zags between hardcore western and family melodrama.
12/03/03
...the surface nastiness is a smokescreen for what lies beneath--a condescendingly multiculti Oprah-fied remake of The Searchers.
12/03/03
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