Sidney Hall
2017, Drama/Mystery and thriller, 1h 59m
27 Reviews 250+ RatingsYou might also like
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (24)
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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 2, 2018 | Rating: 0/4 | Full Review… -
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 1, 2018 | Full Review… -
A tortured mystery dripping with pretentiousness.
March 1, 2018 | Full Review… -
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 | Full Review… -
The seesaw of effect of oscillating between extolling Sidney's genius and lingering on his anguish begins to feel like a child slowly burning an ant with a magnifying glass, occasionally taking breaks to truly savor the harm he or she is committing.
February 25, 2018 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review… -
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 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Sidney Hall
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Jun 27, 2020Too much emphasis on the film's nonlinear structure ruins an earnest effort to tell the story of a high school student, who amidst tragedy around him, meets fame too early.Aldo G Super Reviewer
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Jan 01, 2019This is definitely the passion project of a young man who was bullied in high school and needed to compensate with an elaborate two hour wish-fulfillment scenario, who's completely unaware of how cringe and obvious it is that he's doing it. It doesn't help that the main female character is a manic pixie dream girl because a woman is defined by her ability to be a muse for a misunderstood genius who happens to be the world's most talented writer. His work is so influential that it has profoundly changed society, the phenomena surrounding it torture him, crushing him with the weight of his own talent. It drives him mad how freaking good of a writer he is, that not only he can fully appreciate the gravity and importance of what he's writing. In fact, the second greatest writer in the world, a man who won the Pulitzer out from under him, has to track him down to show him how important his writing is to the world - he's just that much of a genius. Then this pretentious dreck turns into an insufferable melodrama, a miserable series of contrived moments wishing to seem like a profound collage of grief and misunderstanding but far too cheesy to take serious...and I'm pregnant.K Nife C Super Reviewer
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