Finley Sinclair (Reid) is not like other girls, no. She’s different. She plays the violin, but even though she’s technically excellent, she no longer plays with heart. This is because her brother passed away recently. But after a particularly soulless audition, she decides she needs a new change of scenery, and follows in the footsteps of her late brother to study abroad in Ireland.
So, actually, Finley isn’t different at all. She’s just privileged.
Finding You goes to great lengths to dress up Finley as a normal teenage girl, but her story plays more like wish fulfilment fanfiction. Finley finds herself in an incredible amount of unbelievable coincidences during the first act of her story: She hops on a plane and is immediately upgraded to first class, where she sits by famous “bad boy” movie star Beckett Rush (Goodacre), and becomes the focus of his attention because (she’s not like other girls, remember) she is immune to his celebrity. Then, the cruelest twist of
Cruella (Photo: Disney), Chris Rock in
Spiral: From The Book Of Saw (Photo: Lionsgate), Angelina Jolie in
Those Who Wish Me Dead (Photo: Warner Bros.), Emily Blunt in
A Quiet Place Part II (Photo: Paramount), and Dave Bautista in
Army Of The Dead (Photo: Netflix)
Graphic: Natalie Peeples
May is usually the month that kicks off the summer movie season. For obvious reasons, that wasn’t the case last year, and it’s not quite the case this year either the blockbusters don’t start arriving in earnest until June, which Hollywood is banking on as basically the earliest time they can unleash their prospective hits and still draw a vaccinated crowd. But more and more movies