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The movie follows an enigmatic detective as he embarks on a cross-country search for a once-prominent author who's mysteriously disappeared after a string of dangerous arsons have targeted his celebrated but controversial first novel.

Genre:

Drama, Mystery

Actors:

Michelle Monaghan, Elle Fanning, Logan Lerman, Kyle Chandler, Janina Gavankar, Margaret Qualley, Nathan Lane, Blake Jenner, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Drayer, ...»

Director:

Shawn Christensen

Country:

United States

Release:

2017

IMDb:

6.8

Quality:

Duration:

119 min

New York Times

A tortured mystery dripping with pretentiousness.

March 01, 2018

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Common Sense Media

Swearing, implied abuse in "tortured artist" drama.

March 02, 2018

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Cinemacy

... while its subject matter may weigh heavy, the overall package is an emotionally engaging viewing experience for anyone willing to take the journey.

August 05, 2018

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Los Angeles Times

The most passable lens through which to watch writer-director Shawn Christensen's risible indie drama "The Vanishing of Sidney Hall" is by counting the many ways it grates as both an agonized-artist pity party and a male fantasy of envied power.

March 01, 2018

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The Young Folks

Perhaps the greatest tragedy of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall is that nobody told writer/director Shawn Christensen that his gag-on-impact green smoothie of dated arthouse tropes was, in fact, a comedy.

March 07, 2018

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indieWire

Unspools into nearly two hours of baffling narrative choices, weak character development, and so many offensive cliches that it would be funny if they wasn't so, well, offensive.

January 26, 2017

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Cinemalogue

When a publicist tells Sidney, "You're being drunk and pretentious and I'm gonna punch you in the face," it's as if she's reading the minds of moviegoers.

March 09, 2018

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Village Voice

Christensen favors dreamy shots of dusty libraries and desert horizons that, while beautiful, don't make up for the contrived plot driving Sidney toward his destiny.

February 28, 2018

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Hollywood Reporter

The artificially constructed nature of the narrative gives the supposedly shocking revelations way too much importance, essentially subjugating any sense of character development and flaws to its mystery-type structure.

January 27, 2017

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One Guy's Opinion

Suffers from an air of affectation and artificiality made worse by the convoluted structure imposed on the narrative.

March 02, 2018

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Film Inquiry

It's ambitious, takes risks, and contains some finely crafted lines ("Life isn't very interesting unless you're a bit psychotic"), and yet I'm still not sure I could recommend you give up two hours of your life to see it.

March 24, 2018

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RogerEbert.com

In the unlikely event that you've ever been truly curious as to how much M.F.A.-style toxic masculinity can be packed into one motion picture, you ought to check out The Vanishing of Sidney Hall.

March 02, 2018

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