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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2021

The answers the documentary finds are not easy, but the loss Finding Yingying depicts is one that will reverberate for years to come.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2020

Even at its most scattered though, "Finding Yingying" is haunting, largely because it's so personal.

| Dec 11, 2020

"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.

| Dec 11, 2020

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.

| Dec 10, 2020

Shi's tender documentary suggests their daughter is a lot closer than she once seemed.

| Original Score: B | Nov 5, 2020

Shi's Finding Yingying should come with complimentary napkins. It's a sad story, yet an even more fitting tribute.

| Oct 23, 2020

...a doleful elegy for Yingying and the person she could have become.

| Oct 19, 2020

Intimate and haunting.

| Mar 27, 2020