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79 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 62 Ratings

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  • Starring: Danai Gurira, Haaz Sleiman, Richard Jenkins
  • Summary: In a world of 6 billion people, it takes only one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy's follow-up to his award-winning directorial debut "The Station Agent," we get to know Walter Vale, a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City. Through newfound connections with virtual strangers, Walter is awakened to a new world and a new life. (Overture Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    The Visitor, is, if anything, more imaginative and touching than his first.
  2. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    100
    As a writer-director, McCarthy, like the characters and the places that he suffuses with emotion, has poetry in him - and he knows how to let it out. He has a talent for demarcating those spaces in which characters can become whoever they want to be.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    Both director and cast exhibit the dedication of those who truly believe in the message at hand. But with so much earnestness onscreen, the message occasionally gets in the way of the movie itself.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 36
  3. Negative: 4 out of 36
  1. UzK
    10
    Very touching. Loved the emotions exemplified in this film.
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  2. ZekeB.
    5
    Great acting. Terrible plotting. Implausible situations and behavior. Dull white guy who can't play classical piano blossoms after contact with primitive drumbeats. So far, sort of stereotypical, but the actors are charming.... But then DWG(out of a weakly conveyed mentor/mentee infatuation with the drummer boy)spends lots of money on a lawyer, chucks his job, falls in love with the drummer boy's mom (who is a lovely lonely widow-what luck!) Somehow a moody indy flick becomes an after-school special about immigration. I do not understand these other rave reviews. Ultimately, this is a silly movie.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. DamonC.
    2
    Vastly overrated and boring. The narrative doesn't illuminate for me the loss faced by the Richard Jenkins character. He finds redemption in drumming in the subway? Illegal immigrants are sent home? So what? I felt nothing.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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