The Image You Missed
| Release Date: May 31, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The Film StageLeonardo GoiMay 6, 2018
The Image You Missed exists at multiple levels. It is an archival quest to bring back to life a man’s oeuvre, an attempt to reckon with one’s national identity, and a struggle to make sense of the legacy a father left behind. Each film is a mission impossible, but Foreman’s plays out at depths few others normally venture in. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungMay 6, 2018
The Image You Missed arguably functions most effectively as an impressionistic primer on tumultuous Ulster affairs during and after the Troubles, providing vivid glimpses of a violent epoch whose controversial repercussions continue to periodically reverberate across the British Isles and beyond. Read full review
75
Slant MagazinePeter GoldbergMay 29, 2019
The film finds Dónal Foreman exploring the suggestive gaps that exist between his own biography and that of his father. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMay 30, 2019
The Image You Missed is less compelling as an act of personal therapy than it is as filmed film criticism, but even if it doesn’t fully cohere, Foreman’s family stake helps keep it original. Read full review
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