The Visitor (2008) Critic Reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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