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40 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80EmpireEmpireIt may not have Lost In Translation's reach, but it's original and smartly funny with top performances.
- 80VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangThe ever-perceptive writer-director further hones her gifts for ruefully funny observation and understated melancholy with this low-key portrait of a burned-out screen actor.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsA small but, in its way, daring picture.
- 70Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoBoxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoA clearly personal effort, Somewhere demonstrates Coppola's featherweight touch with big subjects like identity and human connection.
- After her foray into historical costumers with "Marie Antoinette," Sofia Coppola makes a happy return to "Lost in Translation" territory in the cutback charmer Somewhere, which illuminates the emptiness of a movie star's life in Los Angeles through close observation and gentle irony.
- 60Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearThe difference between a movie about emptiness and an empty movie becomes abundantly clear.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisI can't say why Coppola wanted to spend time with this man. It's like following someone on Twitter who fails to generate many compelling tweets.
- 40TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissSomewhere has a lot of good impulses, and a salutary faith in an audience's patience; but the film's tone, in its script, performances and visual style, is studiously uninflected. It's a document of people seen remotely, maybe from outer space.
- 40The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThe futility of a noodling movie star is hardly a revelation of the absurdity of the human condition, or whatever this movie is supposed to be about. [20 & 27 Dec. 2010, p. 146]