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Finding You Reviews

The relationship the very likable lead actors form makes Finding You a 21st Century answer to Notting Hill.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 10, 2023

The lack of dramatic twists and turns makes it challenging to imagine a film that is entirely devoid of conflict.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2023

Even as an amorous daydream, "Finding You" is dated and generic, Disney Channel-movie-esque, but without the charismatic teen stars.

Full Review | Dec 7, 2021

Given the significance of the lessons Finley learns - and their congruity with Gospel values - "Finding You" is probably acceptable for teens, some touches of vulgar language notwithstanding.

Yes, the romantic comedy is like many others you have probably seen before. Totally predictable. Yet inoffensive.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2021

Finding You is all journey, like driving down a road you've gone down dozens of times before but they've put up a new billboard or two. You've seen it all before, but the scenery is nice.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 9, 2021

Virtual tourism aside, this formula romance movie about an American student in Ireland barely registers.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2021

It is all very good-natured and clean, Ireland looks beautiful and Carlingford is a great location.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Scores around six on the logarithmic PH scale - Paddywhackery Hazard - that leads from acceptable neo-realist films at one to the herb we won't mention again at 10.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2021

This isn't a bad movie as far as teen romances go, but it's too vanilla to leave a lasting impression.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2021

Tiny specks of grit get entirely smoothed over in pearlescent sentimentality by the end, eased through by lashings of flute-and-fiddle noodlings on the soundtrack.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2021

It's far too long, and so clichéd it's a surprise there are no leprechauns, but decent acting and sharp humour mean it slips down as smoothly as a Guinness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2021

'Finding You' is worth seeking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 8, 2021

When it bundles in every complication it can think of, it veers from being blandly predictable to needlessly contrived and convoluted.

Full Review | May 30, 2021

Finding You was written and directed by Brian Baugh, but the entire movie looks like it came from the mind of a naïve teenager who's read too many hack romance novels.

Full Review | May 29, 2021

The gorgeous setting of Ireland stands out from this generic and by-the-book romantic melodrama. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2021

For all you rom com fans this is what you have been waiting for during all those bleak months behind you.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 24, 2021

I found it clunky, contrived and filled with absurd tropes.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 24, 2021

Spectacular scenery that may inspire you to dream of traveling again, lively Irish music and pub toe-tapping dancing, a coming-of-age romance with a generous side of funny and poignancy.

Full Review | May 23, 2021

With a tighter script and at least one of the subplots trimmed, this romantic drama about finding the courage to be true to oneself could have hit many more high notes

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2021

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‘Finding You’ Review: A Fiddler Falls in Love

In this dull young adult romance, a violinist spends a semester abroad in Ireland and meets a famous dreamboat.

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By Beatrice Loayza

The cinematic teen girls in everything from “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” to “The Fault in Our Stars” go abroad to find themselves, but usually run into boy problems instead. “Finding You,” another phony girlish fantasy adapted from a popular young adult novel (“There You’ll Find Me” by Jenny B. Jones), is no different. But unlike the aforementioned titles, it lacks the personality and dramatic stakes to interest adult viewers.

Directed by Brian Baugh, the film follows Finley Sinclair (Rose Reid), a violinist who heads to a small town off the coast of Ireland after a botched music conservatory audition.

On the flight over she’s serendipitously seated next to the curly-haired dreamboat Beckett Rush (Jedidiah Goodacre), a fantasy franchise actor who the grounded Finley immediately brushes off. Turns out he’s staying at her host family’s bed-and-breakfast for the next several months.

Vaguely inspired by “Pride and Prejudice,” a book that Finley reads to a grumpy retiree (Vanessa Redgrave) whom she’s assigned to visit regularly, the film spends a good chunk of its time humanizing Beckett (whose dad pressures him to act) to upend Finley’s first impressions.

With Beckett as her tour guide, our heroine goes sightseeing, takes in the Cliffs of Moher and encounters a spatter of eccentric locals — like a genial barfly who teaches her the ways of the Irish fiddle. Otherwise, the film might as well take place in any other cute European town featured on a study abroad brochure.

Exploring a new country as a young woman should be more interesting than as a backdrop for improbable romance. But even as an amorous daydream, “Finding You” is dated and generic, Disney Channel-movie-esque, but without the charismatic teen stars.

Finding You Rated PG. Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes. In theaters. Please consult the guidelines outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before watching movies inside theaters.

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