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Finding Yingying
Directed by
Jiayan Shi
Not Rated
2020
1h 37m
Documentary
7.2
100%
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After a young Chinese student goes missing on an American university campus, her family travels to the U.S. for the first time, hoping to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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Cast of Finding Yingying
Brendt Christensen
Self - Convicted of Murdering Yingying Zhang
Yingying Zhang
Self - Murder Victim
Jiayan Shi
Director / Producer
Diane Moy Quon
Producer
Brent E. Huffman
Producer
Finding Yingying Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Jenny Nulf
Finding Yingying brings humanity to the often stale true-crime subgenre while also giving us a unique perspective from someone on the outside of the American justice system.
PopMatters
Chris Barsanti
This film is evocative of both the sting of cultural dislocation and the eerie ease with which lives can vanish in wide open American spaces.
Third Coast Review
Lisa Trifone
Finding Yingying is ultimately a work of compassion and necessity...
RogerEbert.com
Monica Castillo
The answers the documentary finds are not easy, but the loss Finding Yingying depicts is one that will reverberate for years to come.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
While it can't decide what type of documentary it wants to be, this glimpse into a missing-persons case involving a Chinese scholar and her desperate family remains emotionally captivating.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Shi's clear, strong voice, instinctive use of personal archival materials and crisp storytelling elevates Finding Yingying... mystery and an empathetic journey as Zhang's family comes to the United States to look for their missing child.
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
Even at its most scattered though, "Finding Yingying" is haunting, largely because it's so personal.
Variety
Guy Lodge
"Finding Yingying" is conventional and not averse to cliché, particularly via a brooding score that takes too many notes from the true-crime playbook. But its sensitive, sincerely affected director knows a moment of grace when she sees one.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
The film captures [the] ordeal with compassion and a measure of self-reflexivity, which is as much as this unavoidably grim material could ask for.
The Film Experience
Glenn Dunks
It's this focus on the victim rather than the killer and his crimes that elevates Finding Yingying.
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Sarah Boslaugh
...an accomplished and heartfelt film that drops a real bombshell in the final third.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Shi's tender documentary suggests their daughter is a lot closer than she once seemed.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
It's remarkable how Finding Yingying gets away from the traditional framework that governs how these stories are told, allowing the Zhangs to be seen separately from the horrific situation they find themselves in...
Film Threat
Bobby LePire
An intense and heartbreaking work that tenderly tells the story of Yingying Zhang.
Geeks of Color
Andrew J. Salazar
Compelling, heartfelt, and just as frustrating to watch - Finding Yingying not only makes for one of the most essential watches of the year but also for the sake of much-needed change.
812filmreviews
Robert Daniels
Shi's Finding Yingying should come with complimentary napkins. It's a sad story, yet an even more fitting tribute.
Chicago Reader
Kathleen Sachs
...a doleful elegy for Yingying and the person she could have become.
The Film Stage
Matt Cipolla
Finding Yingying doesn't plumb the differences between U.S. and Chinese relations as much as the story alludes to, but the sheer emotion of it all largely redeems it.
The Black Cape
Jonita Davis
'Finding Yingying proves that centering the lives lost and the loved ones left behind can make for an intriguing a true-crime documentary.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Intimate and haunting.
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