The Visitor (2008) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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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
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
An unassuming but quietly heartbreaking drama.Read the full review
It is one of the year's most intriguing dramas, with a quartet of powerful performances.Read the full review
This is a simple story of human drama that provides an incentive to spend a couple of hours in a movie theater during a spring that has not provided many such reasons.Read the full review
The Visitor tells of renewal through love. Its song is tinged with sadness, but stirring all the same.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
A compelling and illuminating story of four people who form an unlikely and momentary friendship of considerable depth.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
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
