The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

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Ruth H @HardheadedWoman 15h Not only did Sidney Hall vanish but so did this movie. Glad that I found it on Netflix. Despite what critics say, it’s beautifully done and it will break your heart. Always happy to see Kyle Chandler. See more No N @LimaBravo 23h Excellent script, performances, and production. The critics' rating of 12 validates my longstanding movie selection process of seeking films on RT with a low critics' rating and high audience rating. See more Kalissa H. @kali_416 1d The ending part is really good. Logan Lerman is great in this. See more Leigh B @Leigh444 1d Good lord. I think I’m just tired of stories about men. This is one of the worst. It’s just one long masturbatory "fantasy" trope about the misunderstood sensitive male genius artist. It’s neither well written, compelling or interesting. Dear god save me from any more of these stupid movies. See more Lexi S. @sexeelexee 1d Some bad reviews to me are sensical... This movie, whilst a rollercoaster of a story, is pretty sad and takes a while to make sense - but I don't get the low rating. I would have, honestly, after the opening scene, have condemned it. I almost turned it off immediately (as I was turned off of the whole thing immediately), but I have tried in the last decade to finish things I start. These days we don't invest in a lot of things unless they draw us in immediately or blow our minds within the time limit of a TikTok video. This is something else. The Vanishing of Sidney Hall was not about the character's actually physical disappearance... It was a tragedy. A disappearance of many lives within one person harboring hope that good will triumph and love will prevail. That they will be okay. That trauma and terror will not win. This is the most Shakespearean modern-day cinema I've ever [unpleasantly] witnessed. Never mind liking it, enjoying it, thinking it was incredible - it is art. Elle Fanning and Logan Lerman have always been actors that I respect and appreciate. They deliver their all: in any genre, era, or work of art. So I watched it, and I hated it, and I know they absolutely killed it. Don't get me wrong, I watch these things for happy endings. I want cinema to be escapism. But on the off-chance I choose a movie based off actors and mystery, I want to feel. And this? I feel like Shakespeare. I feel tragedy. I feel like this encompasses literature in a way Romeo and Juliet doesn't reach modern students/audiences - they're removed from it by history, able to joke from years between - and that, alone, is art. See more Colleen R @Leeni Nov 14 Beautiful and haunting, a well-acted cathartic tragedy. See more Read all reviews

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