79
Metascore
29 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThe 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.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversA heartfelt human drama that sneaks up and floors you.
- 88TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghMcCarthy'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.
- 88USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigIt is one of the year's most intriguing dramas, with a quartet of powerful performances.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis 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.
- 83The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinLike few of his filmmaking peers, McCarthy understands and respects the power of quiet, and how a whisper can be as explosive as a shout.
- 80VarietyVarietyA combination immigrant/resurrection tale, Visitor tilts toward the soulful rather than the political, and could be this year's humanistic indie hit.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA compelling and illuminating story of four people who form an unlikely and momentary friendship of considerable depth.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis is a simple story of human drama that provides an incentive to spend a couple of hours in a movie theater during a spring that has not provided many such reasons.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceMcCarthy unquestionably means well, but he's made one of those incredibly naïve movies that gives liberals a bad name, and which does more to regress the sociopolitical discourse than advance it.