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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonMost docs are lucky to have one wild character. The phenomenal Finders Keepers has two.
- 90VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew Barker[A] hysterical, insightful and genuinely empathetic documentary.
- 90The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisRevealing its humanity slowly and a little tardily, Finders Keepers finally does justice to its dueling antiheroes.
- Finders Keepers pays as much attention to the comedy of the story as the humanity. What could easily be a silly saga or a simple indictment of the culture of fame becomes something diabolically more insightful and uplifting.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeThe Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeFinders Keepers charts out a screwy insight into humanity that is usually only captured in the minds of twisted cartoonists.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranDirectors Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel stick with this story long enough to emotionally deepen the proceedings and show us how the struggle changes lives in profound ways no one could have anticipated.
- 75Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanAs Finders Keepers gets weirder, it also gets better and deeper. Somehow, Carberry and Tweel have managed to fashion an inspirational tale out of what one local newscaster calls a “freak show.”
- 70Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonAn engaging documentary that’s perhaps too enchanted by its own “stranger than fiction” oddness to delve deeply enough into the human drama on display.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirThe bittersweet conclusion of Finders Keepers suggests that the important question is not whether we can retrieve what is lost or fulfill impossible dreams, but how we respond to those failures.
- 67The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezFinders Keepers tries to find the humanity in the absurd, and while it surely has its share of moving moments, the conciliation of the sensational and profound is hard to reconcile.