The Hollywood Reporter

Lucas Belvaux's Rapt is two movies, both excellent, for the price of one.

The Hollywood Reporter by Bernard Besserglik

Lucas Belvaux's Rapt is two movies, both excellent, for the price of one.

Variety by Jordan Mintzer

The issues come clashing together in an explosive package that, despite some snafus, remains fairly riveting to the end.

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Progressing with a coldly observational pace, Rapt often strains its drawn-out structure, creating a lethargic experience despite essentially taking the form of a Bressonian suspense-thriller.

The A.V. Club by Sam Adams

While the back-and-forth between various parties grows tiresome through repetition, Rapt rallies with a lengthy epilogue in which the aftermath of Attal's ordeal proves more draining than the physical privation that preceded it.

Boxoffice Magazine by Wade Major

Compellingly taut and existentially thoughtful, this exceptional Euro-American hybrid is perfectly pitched for the kind of crossover success previously enjoyed by Guillaume Canet's 2006 surprise hit "Tell No One."

Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele

Rapt fuses strands of dramatic tension in a shrewd enough way that it even saves its sharpest cuts for the kidnapping's aftermath, when a well-heeled life laid bare must reconcile with a much different form of enforced solitude.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Yvan Attal and Anne Consigny give understated but powerful performances as Graff and his wife, Françoise. Although a bit too long, Rapt makes for compelling viewing.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

As thrillers go, Rapt is long on intellect and short on action, a virtue to some degree, though not entirely.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

What lends Rapt its fascination is that it represents such a dramatic fall from grace for its hero.

Boston Globe by Mark Feeney

Rapt is smooth, cool, and efficient. It's a movie with very little wasted motion - or, for much of its length, wasted emotion.

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

A solid yet fleet French thriller about a society kidnapping and its shockwaves.

Slant Magazine

It presents itself in a sleek suit and tie, carrying itself from the moment it enters the room with a steadfast gait that suggests there's no dotted line it can't get us to agree to sign.

Time Out by Keith Uhlich

Belvaux's tension-building setup is stellar; the follow-through, less so.

Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

The growing disgust of both his family and business associates, all hazily drawn, may knock the magnate down, but it's a limp substitute for the public fury that still burns after the fall of 2008.