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Mary Corliss, TIME Magazine: The Captive recapitulates the arc of Egoyan's career: early promise, followed by arrant misfires. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: This ludicrous abduction thriller plays like an ill-advised assembly of tropes and themes from Atom Egoyan's highlights reel. Read more
A.A. Dowd, AV Club: 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. Read more
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: The director renders an already bogus story more preposterous by lathering it in portentous solemnity ... Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Surely an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Atom Egoyan ("The Sweet Hereafter") can do better than this nasty and unconvincing thriller. Read more
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: The infuriatingly vague and downright strange story banishes the haunting delicacy of mood that Mr. Egoyan has conjured so successfully in the past. Read more
Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: For all its problems, The Captive does try to hit the themes that have obsessed Egoyan for three decades: desire, death, memory, and time. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Without a thin tether to credibility, this fussy, morbid fantasy simply slides off into the void. Read more
James Rocchi, TheWrap: "The Captive" bores us with its onscreen mystery while leaving another, more important one unanswered: What exactly happened to director Atom Egoyan? Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Beneath the well-tuned atmospherics lurks a schlocky, ludicrous and distasteful yarn Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: 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. Read more