In the new suspense thriller Gone, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) comes home from a night shift to discover her sister Molly has been abducted. Jill, who had escaped from a kidnapper a year before, is convinced that the same serial killer has come back for her sister. Afraid that Molly will be dead by sundown, Jill embarks on a heart-pounding chase to find the killer, expose his secrets and save her sister. -- (C) Summit
Eric D. Snider / Film.com
Feb 26, 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.
Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
Feb 25, 2012
It lies there flapping like a dying fish. Skip it.
Clark Collis / Entertainment Weekly
Feb 25, 2012
Which stinks worse? The absurdly large pile of red herrings Gone amasses? Or the film's sub-Scooby Doo conclusion?
Roger Moore / Houston Chronicle
Feb 25, 2012
There's nothing in the film - which lacks urgency - or Seyfried's eyes or physical demeanor that suggests panic, fear, desperation. R
Jeannette Catsoulis / New York Times
Feb 24, 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.
Linda Barnard / Toronto Star
Feb 24, 2012
While Gone has some visual style, the cheap and melodramatic script fails to make it to the party.
John DeFore / Hollywood Reporter
Feb 24, 2012
A thriller so fixated on red herrings that viewers may stop caring if anyone's really in danger.
Dennis Harvey / Variety
Feb 24, 2012
A low-pulse thriller that evaporates from memory with the last credit.
Comparing Traditional and Online Book Clubs
Readers who join the regular discussion of book is called a reading group, also referred to as a book club. Or the term could also be described as a place to purchase a book. Traditionally, it is composed of several people who meet each month to talk about what they have read. In modern times, this club has become a website for members to appear online. Whichever you choose between the two definitions of the term, you'll find a nice set of advantages with each.