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The Disappearance of Finbar
  • Release Date: Mar 17, 2000
Metascore
47 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Van Gelder
    80
    Acted by an appealing cast, enlivened with well-chosen and varied music and filmed with bleak beauty by the cinematographer Eduardo Serra.
  2. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Liam Lacey
    63
    Narrative-driven and determinedly unpredictable, The Disappearance of Finbar is true to its mandate as a mystery story to a fault. [18 Jul 1987]
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  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    50
    Nothing that makes much sense in Sue Clayton's strained fable about friendship, betrayal and the escapist dream of disappearing in the midst of a miserable patch of life. [17 Mar 2000]
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  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    The beautiful ice-blue landscapes are really the only reason to sit through this rambling and rather silly first feature by writer-director Sue Clayton.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    50
    [Rhys Meyers] remains trapped in an enervating road movie - shelved so long that Rhys Meyers still appears to have baby fat - summed up when Finbar, who turns up in Finland (natch), asks whey-faced Danny, "You couldn't find anything better to do than to come find me?!"
  6. Empire
    Reviewed by: Caroline Westbrook
    40
    An ambitious and sloppy, yet occasionally likeable, cross-European fable.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    40
    Brit filmmaker Sue Clayton's muddled feature bow is full of intriguing ideas and incidental charms that fail to come together into a cohesive whole.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    12
    Part of the problem is that the Finbar character is both underdeveloped and unattractive - you don't get a sense of why anyone would miss him, let alone go searching for him in the snow. [17 Mar 2000]
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