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Richard Corliss, Time: MODERATE "...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." (Read the full review...) 971 words, 09/05/10 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...aims for a sudden rush of meaningfulness at the end of the film. But the weight isn't there. A rejection of utter emptiness is less inspiring than rather obvious." (Read the full review...) 577 words, 12/22/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "Coppola is a true filmmaker... in 'Somewhere' she pierces the Hollywood bubble from the inside." (Read the full review...) 271 words, 12/31/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "As in 'Lost in Translation,' Coppola keeps an eye out for the broken places. That's when 'Somewhere' is really something." (Read the full review...) 156 words, 12/24/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a perceptive look at celebrity culture even if it sometimes feels more like a collection of scenes, a character piece in search of a larger, overarching story." (Read the full review...) 512 words, 12/22/10 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Coppola is a fascinating director. She sees, and we see exactly what she sees. There is little attempt here to observe a plot." (Read the full review...) 830 words, 12/21/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: WEAK (cg) "Its self-conscious and obvious artiness may prove to be its undoing in all but the most elitist film circles. 'Somewhere' goes nowhere." (Read the full review...) 836 words, 12/21/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...something marvelous: a film that never raises its voice... or panders to your emotions, but that nonetheless has the power to refresh your perceptions and deepen your sympathies." (Read the full review...) 1,114 words, 12/22/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...an undeniably minor film. But if you're willing to be indulgent, you'll find surprising pleasures hidden within." (Read the full review...) 214 words, 12/22/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Slight but often seductive... though it loses its nerve in places, 'Somewhere' has success with what it sets out to do. It's a quiet experiment, a minimalist tone poem that does more with less than we're used to seeing." (Read the full review...) 868 words, 12/22/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: POOR (cg) "...insufferable... imagine a film called 'Wanna See Me Crack My Knuckles?' or possibly 'Let's Learn How Long It Takes This Shallow Dish of Liquid To Evaporate.' " (Read the full review...) 573 words, 12/22/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a small but, in its way, daring picture... a convincing case for this kind of inside-baseball story, both in the writing and in the leisurely, observant telling." (Read the full review...) 583 words, 12/22/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "Coppola still has an eye for memorably weird moments (the stripteasing twins are fascinating), but she also feels lazy." (Read the full review...) 294 words, 01/14/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: GOOD "...a mood piece, shapeless but often lyric.... Coppola's poor-rich-girl vision is certainly consistent, although you sometimes wonder if she knows that hers is not the universal human condition." (Read the full review...) 98 words, 12/27/10 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Coppola is a fascinating director. She sees, and we see exactly what she sees. There is little attempt here to observe a plot." (Read the full review...) 830 words, 12/21/10 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...those who groan that the writer-director has made another indulgent film about the obscenely privileged have overlooked Coppola's redoubtable gifts at capturing milieu, languor, and exacting details." (Read the full review...) 632 words, 12/22/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "Coppola works on a tiny canvas, but she paints with very fine strokes.... doesn't lead us anywhere new or profound, but it finds a rainbow where at least some dreams come true." (Read the full review...) 705 words, 01/07/11 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "The mood arises from cinematographer Harris Savides's precise compositions and long, meditative takes. Music and dialogue are minimal, and background information on the characters is in short supply." (Read the full review...) 702 words, 01/07/11 Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...those who groan that the writer-director has made another indulgent film about the obscenely privileged have overlooked Coppola's redoubtable gifts at capturing milieu, languor and exacting details." (Read the full review...) 358 words, 12/23/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...measured, thoughtful and ultimately moving..." (Read the full review...) 208 words, 01/06/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "As with every Coppola tone poem, 'Somewhere' is laced with moments of pure loveliness... and snippets of knowing humor." (Read the full review...) 635 words, 12/22/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...there's grace here, in its aching assessment of loneliness, in its examination of connections and family, and, yes, in its view through the windows of the Château Marmont..." (Read the full review...) 584 words, 01/14/11 Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "For 15 minutes, this new film from Sofia Coppola is blase and deadpan, slightly precious and not particularly interesting.... then suddenly it becomes riveting.... in its odd, detached way, it is compelling viewing." (Read the full review...) 747 words, 01/21/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: WEAK (cg) "...occasionally dead-on in its depiction of the isolation and emptiness of film celebrity... a triumph of tedium, banality passing for depth, a vacuous embrace of nothing." (Read the full review...) 627 words, 01/21/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: POOR (cg) "...another 'woe is me, I'm famous' wallow.... Coppola's characters, with worldviews that scarcely extend beyond their gilded goldfish bowl, are as boring as they are bored." (Read the full review...) 568 words, 01/07/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: EXCELLENT (cg) "...an observation of a life, albeit a different kind of life, that Coppola, through her insistence with the camera, pulls us into." (Read the full review...) 438 words, 01/07/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "The melancholy that wafts through the film is the sadness of privilege.... What a flat movie for Coppola to have made four films into her otherwise remarkable directing career." (Read the full review...) 677 words, 12/22/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: EXCELLENT (cg) "...its characters have a richness about them, a sincerity, a sadness, that stays with you.... It's quiet and satisfying, like lounging poolside at a plush hotel." (Read the full review...) 503 words, 01/21/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a mood piece rather than a drama; little happens, and what does happen is captured in long takes in which you become aware of the passing of time.... [but] there's something mesmerizing and special about it..." (Read the full review...) 462 words, 01/07/11 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "Coppola has talent and ideas, and she's also the kind of filmmaker who seems most comfortable imposing a particular aesthetic vision and structure on her work." (Read the full review...) 600 words, 01/14/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a distinctly European exercise in observational nuance and tonal restraint... there's a dry undercurrent of satire." (Read the full review...) 339 words, 01/14/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "Coppola manages to make it count for something in a totally oblique, European existential angst way." (Read the full review...) 345 words, 01/14/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an intentionally fanciful, gossamer movie, extremely personal and heartfelt, influenced in equal parts by Michelangelo Antonioni (although never so elusive) and Gus Van Sant (just not quite so self-conscious)." (Read the full review...) 810 words, 01/21/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...those who groan that the writer-director has made another indulgent film about the obscenely privileged have overlooked Coppola's redoubtable gifts at capturing milieu, languor, and exacting details." (Read the full review...) 632 words, 12/22/10 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "A small, intimate movie peppered with occasional insight but more often self-indulgence... a movie for the Sofia Coppola faithful..." (Read the full review...) 579 words, 12/23/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...wispy, sardonic..." (Read the full review...) 588 words, 12/30/10 Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...those who groan that the writer-director has made another indulgent film about the obscenely privileged have overlooked Coppola's redoubtable gifts at capturing milieu, languor and exacting details." (Read the full review...) 358 words, 12/23/10 Keith Phipps, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "Coppola's films are no stranger to this sort of world; each one has studied the psychic toll of isolation and privilege.... uneasily compelling and quietly moving..." (Read the full review...) 514 words, 12/21/10 Miriam Bale, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...completely ignores the rules of traditional narrative filmmaking, of indie filmmaking too... This experimental pop film stands on its own, peerless and without precedent, at least in the movies." (Read the full review...) 811 words, 12/17/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "...measured, thoughtful and ultimately moving..." (Read the full review...) 208 words, 01/06/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "Its pretty moments don't make up for its narrative stasis.... It would work just fine as a final episode of 'Entourage,' though." (Read the full review...) 633 words, 01/12/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "I stayed with it despite the glacial pace... I'm glad I did.... The movie stands on its own terms as a slow-burning drama of life in a Hollywood purgatory where you can not only check out but leave." (Read the full review...) 256 words, 12/24/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...something marvelous: a film that never raises its voice... or panders to your emotions, but that nonetheless has the power to refresh your perceptions and deepen your sympathies." (Read the full review...) 1,114 words, 12/22/10 David Denby, New Yorker: WEAK "It's time Coppola risked losing her cool; it's time she made something happen.... the 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." (Read the full review...) 517 words, 12/13/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Slight but often seductive... though it loses its nerve in places, 'Somewhere' has success with what it sets out to do. It's a quiet experiment, a minimalist tone poem that does more with less than we're used to seeing." (Read the full review...) 868 words, 12/22/10 Dana Stevens, Slate: MODERATE "...does contain some of those patented Sofia moments of transcendence... [but] the precise contours of Johnny and Cleo's relationship never emerge from the aesthetic fog." (Read the full review...) 1,235 words, 12/22/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: EXCELLENT "...a fascinating, mature, beautifully crafted work of art from a director who continues to surprise us.... a film about celebrity in the vein of Antonioni and Bertolucci..." (Read the full review...) 1,133 words, 12/20/10
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT "...a quiet heartbreaker.... the ever-perceptive writer-director [Sofia Coppola] further hones her gifts for ruefully funny observation and understated melancholy..." (Read the full review...) 1,002 words, 09/03/10 Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...illuminates the emptiness of a movie star's life in Los Angeles through close observation and gentle irony.... Much of what works in 'Somewhere' is subtle and glancing..." (Read the full review...) 719 words, 09/03/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Slight but often seductive... though it loses its nerve in places, 'Somewhere' has success with what it sets out to do. It's a quiet experiment, a minimalist tone poem that does more with less than we're used to seeing." (Read the full review...) 868 words, 12/22/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: VERY GOOD (cg) "What Coppola is interested in -- and excels at -- is attention to detail, sharp observational powers, non-judgmental approach to 'deviant' lifestyles, smoothly seductive visual style and establishing the right tone..." (Read the full review...) 956 words, 11/25/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...something marvelous: a film that never raises its voice... or panders to your emotions, but that nonetheless has the power to refresh your perceptions and deepen your sympathies." (Read the full review...) 1,114 words, 12/22/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "I stayed with it despite the glacial pace... I'm glad I did.... The movie stands on its own terms as a slow-burning drama of life in a Hollywood purgatory where you can not only check out but leave." (Read the full review...) 256 words, 12/24/10
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