Review of The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018) by Frank S — 06 May 2018

Skip the critics' pretentious reviews of this movies and pay attention to the audience score here. This was a very well-executed and compelling, human drama, and as long as you're not twisting yourself to write a "professional" review that has to be "interesting" and contrary, you'll enjoy this movie.

This is less a story of a "tortured artist" and more a story of a tortured human being. It is well acted: Lerman, Fanning and Chandler all deliver solid and complex performances; it keeps you interested the whole time, and unfolds in a way that is both surprising and very poignant.

So, unless, you're devoid of sympathy for the human condition, or, need to infuse some PC message into each of your critiques, simply because that's fashionable (and I didn't find any messages in the movie that were questionable, beyond the ones of people being complicated), this is definitely a film worth watching.