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91Though its procedural goes a little soft in the middle, Gone Baby Gone quietly accumulates in power, leading to one of the more subtly devastating final shots in recent memory.
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88Gone Baby Gone is full of dark secrets, and how they unravel will keep you glued.
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88The result is a superior police procedural, and something more -- a study in devious human nature.
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88There is a compelling ethical question raised skillfully that will haunt viewers. The poignant conclusion probably will incite debate.
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88The joke's on us, it turns out; as a director, Affleck has come through with a sharp, morally ambiguous piece of pulp crackerjack.
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88Gone Baby Gone is powerful stuff - a movie that derives its plot twists from moral conundrums rather than from narrative sleight of hand.
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88Gone Baby Gone would be an accomplishment with anyone at the helm; from a first-timer, it's a revelation.
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83It's a fine debut, far more grounded, plausible and engrossing than most Hollywood thrillers.
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83In the strongest scenes, Ben Affleck gets his lead actors to extract the bitter juice from Lehane's wood-alcohol prose. The movie has its horrifying Gothic twists and turns, but it's never better than when it takes these two into places where the underclass goes to forget or be forgotten or get lost.