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Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The Visitor 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 more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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 more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [Richard Jenkins] gets the role of a lifetime in this powerful second film by writer-director Thomas McCarthy. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The Visitor tells of renewal through love. Its song is tinged with sadness, but stirring all the same. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: This gifted writer/director knows how to illuminate those moments in which people realize they have become essential to each other -- that each person's life has been gently changed by the other's presence. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: The Visitor is a low-key, naturalistic, beautifully observed character study about the quiet angst of the buttoned-down soul. Read more
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: Both halves of the story ring true in their way, but they don't ring out in harmony. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: 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 more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Richard Jenkins and "The Visitor" make lovely music together. It's a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: McCarthy is so careful not to take a political stand that his film seems neutered by good intentions. In the spirit of squishy humanism, he soft-pedals a hard-hitting topic. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: 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 more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: McCarthy unquestionably means well, but he's made one of those incredibly naive movies (like last fall''s Rendition) that give liberals -- Hollywood liberals especially -- a bad name. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: The Visitor is a small movie, but its emotions could not be writ any larger. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Both director and cast exhibit the dedication of those who truly believe in the message at hand. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Best movie I've seen so far this year? Hands down, it's Tom McCarthy's superb The Visitor, which turns Richard Jenkins, one of the best character actors in the business, into a full-fledged star. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Tom McCarthy's The Visitor, from his own screenplay, is nothing short of a triumph for 60-year-old character actor Richard Jenkins, in his first leading role in a feature film. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A marvelous film, small in expense but big in stature. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The Visitor is a tiny treasure of a movie. This is a wistful comedy that quickly finds its rhythm, but never lets that groove become a rut. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: At first glance Walter isn't a guy you want to spend two hours with. But by the end of the film, you don't want to see him go. Jenkins is like that: He sneaks up on you and steals your heart with light-fingered skill. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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 more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: This is a small picture that explodes the boundaries of what size really means. Sometimes it's the smallest gesture that makes you feel most alive. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: McCarthy puts a mark on each film, identifying it as distinctly his own. A couple more like them, and he'll be knighted an auteur. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The Visitor is a delicate, human reminder of why independent films matter. Read more
Jason McBride, Globe and Mail: The film becomes less about the suffering of immigrants who have never enjoyed the embrace of Ellis Island than the righteous indignation of a liberal intelligentsia raging against its own powerlessness. Read more
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star: The story of Vale's revitalization and his grief is compelling but simple, free of any sentimentality, and marked by powerful performances from Jenkins and Hiam Abbass, who plays Mouna Khalil, Tarek's mother. Read more