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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

2017

Shawn Christensen

Logan Lerman, Elle Fanning, Blake Jenner, Michelle Monaghan ...

5.8

512

Drama After publishing a bestselling novel based on the death of one of his high school classmates, the controversial writer Sidney Hall (Logan Lerman) finds himself catapulted to unexpected fame. His relationship with his girlfriend (Elle Fanning) begins to fall apart as the dark consequences of the book intrude on their life together, and he disappears without a trace. Nearly a decade later, an enigmatic detective searches for the missing author. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"How Editing Can Destroy Your Movie: The Movie (...) The premise of the film (...) is certainly an interesting one"	NEU
United States	Geoff Berkshire Variety	"[It] squanders a cast of promising young performers (...) A tedious journey that runs out of steam long before reaching an embarrassingly overwrought finale"	NEG
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"A film that maddeningly over-complicates each of its numerous storylines (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"This narcissistic mystery is a manipulative mix of cinema’s ugliest tropes (...) Shawn Christensen's newest feature is as bizarre as it is offensive."	NEG
United States	Joe Blessing The Playlist	"The final product is disappointing (...) Christensen should have given Sidney a deeper sense of identity"	NEG

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