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Gone Baby Gone (2007)

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All Time

of 190,142

627

2000's

of 34,011

153

2007

of 1,603

22
Crime
- Crime All Time
  
  of 6,077
  
  127
  
  Crime of 2007
  
  of 96
  
  4
  
  Crime of the 2000's
  
  of 1,142
  
  26
Drama
- Drama All Time
  
  of 37,999
  
  368
  
  Drama of 2007
  
  of 640
  
  15
  
  Drama of the 2000's
  
  of 9,649
  
  85
Mystery
- Mystery All Time
  
  of 3,090
  
  45
  
  Mystery of 2007
  
  of 35
  
  2
  
  Mystery of the 2000's
  
  of 716
  
  8

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Gone Baby Gone (2007) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.0900

Avg Critic Score:3.0787

Gone Baby Gone (2007) Movie Reviews

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ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

Gone Baby Gone is powerful stuff - a movie that derives its plot twists from moral conundrums rather than from narrative sleight of hand. ...read the complete Gone Baby Gone movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Boston seems like the most forbidding city in crime movies. ...read the complete Gone Baby Gone movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Not only did Ben Affleck have to sweat out making his directing debut by adapting a Dennis Lehane novel (Clint Eastwood already set the bar on Lehane's Mystic River), he also cast his brother Casey in the leading role. ...read the complete Gone Baby Gone movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Boston seems like the most forbidding city in crime movies. ...read the complete Gone Baby Gone movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Ben Affleck's credible but flawed directorial debut is based on a grim Beantown thriller from the 1998 novel by Dennis Lehane of Mystic River fame, and is co-scripted by him and Aaron Stockard. ...read the complete Gone Baby Gone movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

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eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)

Gone, Baby, Gone has many familiar elements from both the history of the crime drama and the last adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel. That, as you may recall, was Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River, the story of a young girl’s murder and the subsequent gr...read the complete Gone Baby Gone (2007) review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)

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The New York Times

For his first time behind the camera as a director, the actor Ben Affleck has chosen a brooding, serious drama about missing children, wayward parents and idealism lost and regained. “Gone Baby Gone” is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, who wrote t...read the complete Gone Baby Gone (2007) review at The New York Times

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Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)

Director Affleck's noirishly stylized film weighs heavily under a dense vision of lies, secrets and corrupt agendas that will have you running for a breath of air by the time it ends....read the complete Gone Baby Gone (2007) review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)

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Movie Habit (Nick Reed)

Not all films are supposed to be a walk in the park, but you shouldn't want to take a shower after...read the complete Gone Baby Gone (2007) review at Movie Habit (Nick Reed)

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