The Visitor Critic Reviews

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San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The Visitor, is, if anything, more imaginative and touching than his first.Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

The curious thing about The Visitor is that even as it goes more or less where you think it will, it still manages to surprise you along the way.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

It is one of the year's most intriguing dramas, with a quartet of powerful performances.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

A heartfelt human drama that sneaks up and floors you.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Wesley MorrisAdd Critic to Favorites

This is a film of our times - paranoid, heartbroken, disillusioned - and the rare recent American movie whose characters react the way actual people might.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Like few of his filmmaking peers, McCarthy understands and respects the power of quiet, and how a whisper can be as explosive as a shout.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

This audaciously issues-loaded indie drama works, improbably and entirely, on account of the marvelous, often familiar-looking, rarely starring character actor Richard Jenkins and his perfect performance as a stodgy, widowed economics professor.Read the full review

Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites

Gives viewers a perceptive, deeply personal take on the timeless immigrant narrative, in which the most epic journey is finally one of self-discovery.Read the full review

Variety | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

A combination immigrant/resurrection tale, Visitor tilts toward the soulful rather than the political, and could be this year's humanistic indie hit.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

An unassuming but quietly heartbreaking drama.Read the full review

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