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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 65Film ThreatRob RectorFilm ThreatRob RectorAbandoned delivers tension with a more nuanced approach to a particularly emotionally vulnerable stage of life.
- 50The PlaylistThe PlaylistUltimately, neither Squire nor Roberts nor Gallagher Jr. really puts a foot wrong in this movie, but that’s chiefly because the whole thing is standing still.
- 50The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakThis is a very slow-moving work that leans heavily on auditory scares rather than visual ones, the whole akin to sleep-deprivation torture.
- 40TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanTheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanA listless thriller that can’t find its footing, Abandoned does occasionally rouse itself enough to suggest a better movie that never comes to pass.
- 40Screen RantAlexander HarrisonScreen RantAlexander HarrisonAbandoned has a few things in its favor, but the disappointing conclusion obscures them while making the movie's flaws even more prominent, which ultimately makes it difficult to recommend.
- 38RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoInstead of ratcheting up tension, Squire seems content to sustain a minor-stakes atmosphere that, well, abandons his leading lady in a film that doesn’t do anything interesting with her predicament.
- 25Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe Erik Patterson and Jessica Scott script is laughably generic, and even the potentially alarming moments are given a cut-rate handling by director Spencer Squire, who hopefully resented the fact that the production didn’t even have money for spectral effects.