Prisoners was released in 2013, by acclaimed director Denis Villeneuve, and has a complex mystery at its center. Here is the film’s ending explained.

In my opinion, the best films leave the viewer with a question, something they can ponder and continue to examine long after they’ve finished their popcorn. Denis Villeneuve’s “Prisoners ...

As Detective Loki, the astute investigator on the scent of a child abductor in Prisoners, Jake Gyllenhaal creates one of the most enigmatic characters to come along in a while.

What is out of the ordinary is that both of Gyllenhaal's movies are from the same director, French Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, a best foreign language Oscar nominee for 2010's ...

Prisoners is infused with a poetic intensity that's rare in American thrillers. ... Full of moral certitude, he clashes with Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), who's put in charge of the case.

An underemployed contractor (Hugh Jackman) takes the law -- and a few things outside it -- into his own hands with regard to the man (Paul Dano) he suspects has kidnapped his daughter.

After finding the RV, and the driver, Alex Jones (Paul Dano) in a rest stop, Detective Loki turns up zero evidence of the girl’s presence in both the vehicle, and Jones’ home, which he shares ...

Prisoners has the sheen of a prestige picture and the guts of Law & Order's best episode. A brooding mystery with the ambition of Silence of the Lambs or Zodiac, director Denis Villeneuve ...

As an angry father whose daughter has been abducted (yes, that plot again), Hugh Jackman, veins bulging, shouts and pounds drywall and a human face with his fists. I kept expecting those claws to p… ...

Allowing an audience to influence a review isn't the way movie critics work but sometimes it shouldn't be dismissed. Especially when unintended laughter and fadeout groans confirm 2 ½ hours of ...

The Aussie delivers one of the best performances of his career in the riveting thriller Prisoners . He sat down with Marlow Stern to discuss the film, the dangers of parenting, post-9/11 torture ...