Rapt! 2009

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: "Rapt'' is smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: What distinguishes "Rapt" from other kidnapping movies is that, virtually as soon as he is abducted, details of his life start coming out. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: A solid yet fleet French thriller about a society kidnapping and its shockwaves. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Belvaux's tension-building setup is stellar; the follow-through, less so. Read more

Sam Adams, AV Club: While the back-and-forth between various parties grows tiresome through repetition, Rapt rallies with a lengthy epilogue in which the aftermath of Attal's ordeal proves more draining than the physical privation that preceded it. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: "Rapt" fuses strands of dramatic tension in a shrewd enough way that it even saves its sharpest cuts for the kidnapping's aftermath, when a well-heeled life laid bare must reconcile with a much different form of enforced solitude. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: It features pulse-quickening chases as well as political intrigue. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What lends "Rapt" its fascination is that it represents such a dramatic fall from grace for its hero. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Both a compelling character study and a handsomely mounted procedural, at various times suggesting Hitchcock, his French acolyte Claude Chabrol, the sadistic TV series "24" and the action movies of Michael Mann. Read more

Wally Hammond, Time Out: A tense hostage-thriller with a difference. Read more

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Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: The growing disgust of both his family and business associates, all hazily drawn, may knock the magnate down, but it's a limp substitute for the public fury that still burns after the fall of 2008. Read more