Vincent Canby: Missing (1982). In: The New York Times. 12. Februar 1982, abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2008 (englisch): „"Missing" is Mr. Costa-Gavras’s most beautifully achieved political melodrama to date, a suspense-thriller of real cinematic style, acted with immense authority by Jack Lemmon, as Charles Horman’s father, Ed Horman, and Sissy Spacek as Charles’s wife, Beth“
rogerebert.com
Roger Ebert: Missing (PG). In: rogerebert.suntimes.com. 1. Januar 1982, abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2008 (englisch): „I wish the movie had been even braver, brave enough to risk a clear, unequivocal, uncompromised statement of its beliefs, instead of losing itself in a cluttered mishmash of stylistic excesses. This movie might have really been powerful, if it could have gotten out of its own way“
spiegel.de
Urs Jenny: Filmfestival Cannes: Drehbuch vom CIA. In: Der Spiegel. Nr.21, 1982 (online).
