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The Captive
Directed by
Atom Egoyan
R
2014
1h 52m
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5.9
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32%
5.8
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Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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Cast of The Captive
Ryan Reynolds
Matthew
Mireille Enos
Tina
Rosario Dawson
Nicole
Scott Speedman
Jeffrey
Kevin Durand
Mika
Alexia Fast
Cass
Christine Horne
Vicky
Bruce Greenwood
Vince
Arsinée Khanjian
Diane
Brendan Gall
Teddy
Aaron Poole
Mike
Jason Blicker
Sam
Aidan Shipley
Albert
Peyton Kennedy
Young Cass
Mark Gorodnitsky
Young Albert
Paige Baril
Paige
Ella Ballentine
Jennifer
William MacDonald
Frank
Kelsey Ruhl
Linda
Ian Matthews
Willy
The Captive Ratings & Reviews
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
For all its problems, The Captive does try to hit the themes that have obsessed Egoyan for three decades: desire, death, memory, and time.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Becomes baroque and ludicrous as the Hitchcockian scenario loses its psychological bearings in a web of trashy plot twists and self-conscious jumps in time.
Film Journal International
David Noh
[The Captive] is undone by one too many ill-timed flashbacks and some garish melodrama which reduces the human element.
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
"The Captive" may appear to bite off a little more than it can chew but it's one of the most satisfyingly baroque thrillers of the year, and thanks to a perfectly judged performance by Ryan Reynolds, it's quietly heartbreaking, too.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
The infuriatingly vague and downright strange story banishes the haunting delicacy of mood that Mr. Egoyan has conjured so successfully in the past.
Metro
Matt Prigge
The film is a handy encapsulation of Atom Egoyan's career: a strong start that takes a hairpin turn into the ridiculous.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Once Egoyan loses interest in an intelligent way out of a harrowing plot, the effort sinks to the level of cheap thrills and easy resolutions.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
The structural gamesmanship is just a smokescreen, a way to obfuscate the pulp nature of what is, ultimately, little more than a glorified, low-aiming potboiler.
The Dissolve
Mike D'Angelo
[Egoyan is] still talented enough to give his clunkers an evocative sheen, but if viewers dig an inch below the surface, it's wincing time.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Surely an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Atom Egoyan ("The Sweet Hereafter") can do better than this nasty and unconvincing thriller.
JoBlo's Movie Network
Chris Bumbray
THE CAPTIVE is a disaster, but I must admit that it's at least entertaining in a "wow, I can't believe this exists" kind of way
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
When it isn't TV-movie familiar, Egoyan's film is bughouse crazy, mixing in campy pulp elements that bleed pressure away from the story.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The film has the plot of an intensely lurid thriller, but Atom Egoyan can't bring himself to face that and actively tend to the story; instead, he trades in barely coherent, high-brow euphemisms.
TheWrap
James Rocchi
"The Captive" bores us with its onscreen mystery while leaving another, more important one unanswered: What exactly happened to director Atom Egoyan?
TIME Magazine
Mary Corliss
The Captive recapitulates the arc of Egoyan's career: early promise, followed by arrant misfires.
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
For every way that The Sweet Hereafter makes its generic elements seem fresh and even a trifle mysterious, The Captive finds new ways to render them absurd.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
...right down to the nearly synonymous title we get a lurid, silly Prisoners me-too...
Vanity Fair
Jordan Hoffman
[A] film too absurd to take seriously, but too strange to ignore.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
The director renders an already bogus story more preposterous by lathering it in portentous solemnity ...
Variety
Justin Chang
This ludicrous abduction thriller plays like an ill-advised assembly of tropes and themes from Atom Egoyan's highlights reel.
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