- , Empire Magazine, April 26, 2012
It's daffy, but it works.
- Mike McCahill, Guardian [UK], April 19, 2012
Everything about 'Gone' has the plasticy, leatherette feel of an imitation thriller.
- Cath Clarke, Time Out, April 19, 2012
- , Urban Cinefile, March 22, 2012
Gifted and sincere as she always is, there's not much Ms. Seyfried can do with this tripe.
- Rex Reed, New York Observer, February 29, 2012
It's a significant letdown that after all Jill's running, and all the guessing Seyfried makes us do, the climactic confrontation plays like an uninspired afterthought.
- Tom Russo, Boston Globe, February 27, 2012
A movie that makes "Murder on the Orient Express" feel like"The Silence of the Lambs"by comparison.
- Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, February 27, 2012
No money should ever change hands in any Gone-related interaction, unless it is because you are buying matches and gasoline to set all the copies of it on fire.
- Eric D. Snider, Film.com, February 26, 2012
It lies there flapping like a dying fish. Skip it.
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone, February 25, 2012
Which stinks worse? The absurdly large pile of red herrings Gone amasses? Or the film's sub-Scooby Doo conclusion?
- Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly, February 25, 2012
Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia makes a decent fist of creating tension, utilising an eerie soundscape, the dark location elements to create unease.
- Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile, February 25, 2012
Ms. Seyfried belongs to a stable of blank-faced, saucer-eyed beauties whose limited appeal may conquer the small screen but so far has failed to tame the large.
- Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, February 24, 2012
While Gone has some visual style, the cheap and melodramatic script fails to make it to the party.
- Linda Barnard, Toronto Star, February 24, 2012
A thriller so fixated on red herrings that viewers may stop caring if anyone's really in danger.
- John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter, February 24, 2012
A low-pulse thriller that evaporates from memory with the last credit.
- Dennis Harvey, Variety, February 24, 2012
- , Urban Cinefile, June 25, 2012
Siblings aren't the only things missing from Gone: Suspense, scares and common sense are all likewise MIA.
- Matt Singer, Time Out New York, February 26, 2012
Gone and soon forgotten.
- Adam Woodward, Little White Lies, April 19, 2012
Nearly a year has passed since the release of Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood, and Amanda Seyfried is still crying wolf.
- R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant Magazine, February 24, 2012
It's never fully convincing in the way it lays out a bread-crumb trail for its suffering protagonist to follow to the truth. But it does find a little new life in a familiar formula.
- Tasha Robinson, AV Club, February 24, 2012
