Wrecked 2010

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: "Wrecked" is mostly free of dialogue - and, unfortunately, suspense. Read more

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: The 91-minute film builds tension steadily and despite the single set -- if you can think of the wilderness as a single set -- it is visually inventive so the man's ordeal never grows tedious. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Asked to convey a wide spectrum of emotional tones like confusion, shock, sadness, anger and oh, look out for the mountain lion, Brody does all he can to hold the screen. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: It's a tribute to Adrien Brody that Wrecked works as a modestly compelling thriller, since there's almost nothing to see but Brody himself. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: It might not be James Franco's tour de force in the higher-profile "127 Hours," but Oscar winner Adrien Brody makes a meal of his seriously injured character. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: In all those empty blockbusters, the big screen swells pointlessly; at least in these narrow spaces it shrinks with a real purpose. Far better the tight squeeze than the big bloat. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: As much as you want Wrecked to work because Brody is that good, it starts to drag and some may soon be sneaking peeks at their watches. Read more

Jay Weissberg, Variety: Adrien Brody once again proves he's got enough onscreen appeal to carry a decent thriller. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Because it's so carefully parceled out and so evocatively framed, Wrecked is an absorbing ordeal, perhaps less for its survival narrative than its metaphoric heft. Read more