The Expatriate 2012

Kate Erbland, MSN Movies: 'Erased' is an entertaining enough action outing with plenty of well-done elements to recommend it. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: 'Frances Ha' is the most purely enjoyable and sweet-tempered movie the exceptionally talented Baumbach has made his nearly two decades as a director. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: A bearable if unremarkable composite of the "Taken" movies and "Three Days of the Condor." Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The only sure way to avoid the loss of any more I.Q. points in the world today is to stay away from movies like Erased. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: A confidently engineered, propulsive piece of intelligent action cinema. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: A sort of poor man's Liam Neeson revenge movie, where every call is placed from a pay phone and every other scene seems to take place in a train station. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: "Erased" isn't actively bad, it's just doing something that has been done a whole lot better before. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Eckhart and Liberato may not act as if they're in Retread-land - Olga Kurylenko, meanwhile, as a CIA handler, barely acts at all - but this "Erased" is eminently forgettable. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It promises little, and half-heartedly delivers. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Most people can only watch the same movie so many times. But Philipp Stolzl is clearly hopeful that when you're done with "Taken" (and "Taken 2"), you'll want more of the same. Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: Liberato gives a smart, nonwhining performance as the good girl coping with Daddy's lack of job security. Eckhart's another matter. Read more

Michael Posner, Globe and Mail: Arash Amel's plot is a hodgepodge of threadbare motifs, liberally cut and pasted from every thriller you've seen. Read more

Guy Lodge, Time Out: It's as distinct from its genre forerunners as Aldi is from Lidl, but German director Philipp Stolzl keeps things moving at a fair clip. Read more

Eric Hynes, Time Out: An unabashed knockoff of the Taken films ... Read more

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: A thriller whose storytelling ingredients are so familiar that one could watch it with the sound off and still know what's going on. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Characters we genuinely care about are lost in a movie that almost dissipates before our very eyes. Read more