Fresh
There's a pretty good film if you give writer-director Noah Buschel a chance. The 31-year-old crafts a convincing noir tale, with a sense of realism that makes the experience pleasingly voyeuristic.
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
The Missing Person
John Rosow is a private investigator. And an alcoholic. He just got the case of his life.
2009 · 1h 35m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Noah Buschel
Overview
John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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64%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The real mystery here is how writer-director Noah Buschel talked recent supporting Oscar nominees Michael Shannon and Amy Ryan into doing this movie.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
Buschel makes striking use of the Mike Hammer/Philip Marlowe tradition to tell a story of disorientation and loss in a post-9/11 world where the Twin Towers can go missing too.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
It's a great-looking movie, with an evocative use of music and, in rugged-yet-sensitive Michael Shannon, has an actor whose forceful, focused presence is the film's sturdy linchpin.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Sluggish, stylized and frequently washed in a bilious green tint, The Missing Person is yet oddly irresistible, its omnipresent anxiety like a musical chord that neither rises nor falls.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
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