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100The Visitor, is, if anything, more imaginative and touching than his first.
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100As 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.
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91It works on several levels, and stands out as a wistful meditation on the psychological cost of 9/11.
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90Eloquent and unassuming, it's a picture that hits home precisely because it doesn't overreach its grasp.
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90The curious thing about The Visitor is that even as it goes more or less where you think it will, it still manages to surprise you along the way.
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88A heartfelt human drama that sneaks up and floors you.
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88Jenkins and The Visitor”make lovely music together. It’s a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world.
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88Best movie I've seen so far this year? Hands down, it's Tom McCarthy's superb The Visitor, which turns Richard Jenkins, one of the best character actors in the business, into a full-fledged star.
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88McCarthy's flawless casting may be the film's greatest strength: Veteran character actor Jenkins and his costars vanish into their characters -- their performances are so subtle and unforced that they don't feel like performances at all.
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88It is one of the year's most intriguing dramas, with a quartet of powerful performances.
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88This is a film of our times - paranoid, heartbroken, disillusioned - and the rare recent American movie whose characters react the way actual people might.
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83This audaciously issues-loaded indie drama works, improbably and entirely, on account of the marvelous, often familiar-looking, rarely starring character actor Richard Jenkins and his perfect performance as a stodgy, widowed economics professor.
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83Like few of his filmmaking peers, McCarthy understands and respects the power of quiet, and how a whisper can be as explosive as a shout.