With equal parts sensitivity and suspense, Elizabeth is Missing displays an emotional range that is sometimes uncommon in crime by interweaving it with an intensely personal drama. The result is mesmerizing.

| Jan 6, 2021

The film is a frustrating work in that it details layers and layers of frustration on every front, but it's also simple, beautiful, and effective. Elizabeth may be missing in a tangible sense, but increasingly in her own life, Maud is too.

| Original Score: 9.2/10 | Jan 5, 2021

It's a great setup for a straightforward mystery, but "Elizabeth Is Missing" is more complicated than that, and while you can't hold that ambition against it, you might wish that you were watching something simpler.

| Jan 5, 2021

Wrap those big puzzles around a performance as great as Jackson's and this is a tightly told story well worth checking out, even if you may need the mystery to pique your initial curiosity.

| Jan 5, 2021

It's both emotionally challenging and entertaining, and it once again shows the range that has distinguished "Masterpiece" across the decades.

| Jan 4, 2021

Ms. Jackson has always shown herself to be an exacting and gifted artist, but Maud Horsham is the kind of role that requires much more out of a performer than just actorly craft. And that, happily, is what we get.

| Jan 4, 2021

Jackson is tremendous -- the walking embodiment of a desperate snarl. For as solid as the film's production is, it's hard to imagine Elizabeth Is Missing hanging together without an actor as ferociously good as Jackson anchoring it.

| Jan 4, 2021

[It] poignantly conflates its protagonist's fraying condition with a dual murder mystery-a marriage that transforms this sterling affair into a multifaceted portrait of loss.

| Dec 30, 2020

Jackson is 83 and not diminished. Age does not wither her... Her performance cut everything away, taking us right to the emotional core of a woman who is confused, frightened, frustrated, angry, proud and some-times impossible.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 16, 2019

I found it slow and not interesting or well observed enough, and there comes a point in your life when you have to admit you don't enjoy watching old women wet themselves on the box.

| Dec 16, 2019

The sensitivity and intelligence lavished on the set-up was squandered by a third act that was overloaded with fanciful heroics and wishful thinking.

| Dec 16, 2019

The real drama exists elsewhere, in bravely impressionistic form held together by superb writing, a complex but immaculate structure and Jackson's mesmerising, heartbreaking performance at its heart.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 11, 2019

The drama achieved two important things: providing a truthful portrayal of the condition, and reminding people caring for those with dementia that they are not alone.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 11, 2019

A powerful and unsentimental portrait of psychological decline.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2019

The story, adapted from Emma Healey's novel, was cleverly told so that we didn't know where Elizabeth was, but experienced her "disappearance" from Maud's perspective; confused and disjointed with little sense of elapsing time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2019