A riveting political piece.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 2, 2024

Costa-Gavras made far more radical political thrillers than this but I think this was one of his sharpest efforts as it is able to package its political message within an engaging human story.

| Feb 7, 2023

Missing remains one of director Costa-Gavras's best works.

| Jan 20, 2022

A fascinating story that is all the more frightening because it actually happened.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 27, 2020

By focusing on the father-son relationship, Costa-Gavras gives his audience an excuse to ignore the politics -- much as Lemmon himself does.

| Feb 27, 2020

Thanks to Jack Lemmon's magnificent performance, this historical information turns into a thrilling story that doesn't allows us to be indifferent. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 26, 2019

It's an extraordinary real life story brought to life by exceptional film-making and committed acting.

| Oct 30, 2018

Still relevant 34 years after its release and 43 years after the events it depicts. [Full review in Portuguese.]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 15, 2016

Graphic portrayal of dictatorship's abuses is unforgettable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2012

A powerful, influential and tense political thriller based on a true story.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 31, 2011

A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions.

| Mar 29, 2009

Though Costa-Gavras clearly has a political axe to grind, he manages to do so without haranguing the viewer, keeping the film's focus on his characters and masterfully building tension as the story moves toward its stinging resolution.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 29, 2009

Lemmon is superior as a man facing up to issues he never wanted to confront personally.

| Mar 26, 2009

engrossing, fascinating, and endlessly tragic.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2008

Lemmon and Spacek are the film's highlight... It's a winning formula, and it's too bad that there isn't more of it.

| Oct 24, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2008

In Costa-Gavras's fact-inspired political melodrama, Jack Lemmon gives one of his strongest performances as a naive, conservative American who gets rude political awakening when his leftist son is executed with the tacit knowledge of the US government

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 12, 2007

Time has not only been kind to the film, but has, -- unfortunately -- made it relevant all over again.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 20, 2006

Spacek and Lemmon are fine as the missing man's wife and father, but what makes the film so overwhelming in places is its unending night-time imagery of a society coming apart at the seams.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2006