The Telegraph
The Vanishing makes an unmistakable effort, but also feels like one, and fades almost fittingly from the imagination within hours of seeing it.
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The Vanishing (2019)
Gerard Butler plays one of three lighthouse keepers on a remote island who discover a hidden trunk of gold in this confined thriller based on the Flannan Isle mystery. Their decision to keep the treasure causes mounting tension and an unshakable sense of paranoia.
2019101 minsUK
CrimeMysteryThriller
The Vanishing (2019) / Reviews
The Guardian
It’s a very powerfully performed, intimate piece, perhaps inspired at some level by the classic adventure The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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The film proves highly effective with its slowly ratcheted up tension and eerie atmospherics.
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The New York Times
While Jorgen Johansson’s windswept photography creates a credible sense of isolation (he filmed in part at the Mull of Galloway lighthouse), we sense the ominous rhythms of impending calamity.
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