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- 83The Film StageThe Film StageThe 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.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe 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.
- 75Slant MagazinePeter GoldbergSlant MagazinePeter GoldbergThe film finds Dónal Foreman exploring the suggestive gaps that exist between his own biography and that of his father.
- 70The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe 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.