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

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

| Mar 26, 2009

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

This movie might have really been powerful, if it could have gotten out of its own way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

Among other things Missing does is to convince you that, next time, you're not going to waste your vote. The passive citizen is the citizen-victim.

| May 20, 2003