Missing
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | Release Date: January 20, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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60
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonJan 19, 2023
Missing captures the constant distractions of the modern age. Pop-up windows continually tug at June’s attention. However, the film’s more engaging moments tap into the older cyber nostalgia of text-based adventure games from the 1970s, where problems are solved by typing the right command. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 19, 2023
Sighs at incongruously dumb behaviour and groans at the family soap are eventually drowned out by audible gasps at some of the wild twists, the kind that might not make much sense on reflection but do deliver cattle-prod shocks along the way. Read full review
60
IGNMatt DonatoJan 13, 2023
Missing owes its best moments to learning from 2018’s Searching, but is a bit of a downgrade in terms of Screenlife usage. Read full review
60
VarietyTodd GilchristJan 13, 2023
An improbable escalation of events and more than a few niggling questions about who’s doing what and how renders this screenlife thriller in dimensions that unfortunately resonate better on an intimate, handheld scale than the big screen. Read full review
58
The PlaylistBrianna ZiglerJan 19, 2023
Like Searching, Missing has something tenuous it wants to say underneath its shocking mystery about viral social media culture and the true crime craze; how our social media culture is too prone to exploiting real peoples’ pain for clout and consumption. But if there was an inkling of profundity in this regard in Searching, there’s none of it to be found in Missing, which functions more like a direct copy of true crime rather than an interrogation of it. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJan 21, 2023
This picture’s just a clockwork contraption of clever “tools” used cleverly and little more, none of them more than Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere or whatever editing software they used to cut this sterile jewel into shape with. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussJan 17, 2023
By the time “Missing” reaches its truly terrible ending (which makes you wonder if the movie was all just a stealth Apple promotion), the feeling is one of programmed exhaustion rather than catharsis. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJan 13, 2023
Humor for the sake of humor is a worthwhile pursuit, but Missing’s final act is more unintentionally funny than intentionally funny. Read full review
50
IndieWireVikram MurthiJan 13, 2023
The many logic-defying developments in “Missing” make it difficult to hold one’s attention, especially considering that the film gives viewers plenty of time to think about the countless ways it doesn’t make sense. Read full review
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