Miami Herald
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9
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By Rene Rodriguez
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Dec 11, 2012
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The best movie directors aren't just masters of technical craft: They also are artists capable of showing you the world through their eyes -- of making you see and feel exactly what they do.
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Newsday
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0
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By Rafer Guzman
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Dec 11, 2012
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It seems impossible that this heavy-handed, self-serious movie comes from writer-director Sofia Coppola.
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Orlando Movie Examiner
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4
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By Christopher Crespo
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Sep 08, 2011
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Everyone has problems; this is a constant in life, pretty much no matter who you are or from where you come, and these problems are often universal. But does that mean people want to see a movie about a successful Hollywood actor and his existential crisis? Is it worthwhile to spend ninety minutes following around someone who has obtained the success they wanted, only to find out that this really wasn’t what they wanted in the first place?...
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Toronto Star
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8
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By Peter Howell
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Feb 25, 2011
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It's the singular achievement of Sofia Coppola's affecting new film that she manages to make us care for a dissolute movie star, his angry ex-wife and their indulged daughter.
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Arizona Republic
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8
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By Bill Goodykoontz
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Feb 25, 2011
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It's the kind of thing some people will appreciate and embrace, while others will flee in a fit of frustrated boredom. My advice: Stick around.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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2
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By Colin Covert
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Feb 25, 2011
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Another "woe is me, I'm famous" wallow.
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Denver Post
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6
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By Lisa Kennedy
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Feb 25, 2011
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The writer-director of "Lost in Translation" and "Marie Antoinette" has made the malaise of the privileged her special turf. Ennui is her milieu. And Coppola has a talent for revealing its existential and cultural dimensions.
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Globe and Mail
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8
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By Liam Lacey
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Feb 25, 2011
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Throughout, Dorff is doggedly credible as an obtuse actor, but the richer performance here is from Fanning, and it might have been a stronger movie told from her character's point of view.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
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6
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By Steven Rea
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Feb 25, 2011
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Ultimately, Somewhere may be too static, too minimalist a tale. But there's grace here, in its aching assessment of loneliness, in its examination of connections and family...
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Chicago Reader
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0
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By J. R. Jones
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Feb 25, 2011
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If you're impressed by the fact that this won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, go look up the price of a flight to Venice.
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Detroit News
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6
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By Tom Long
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Feb 25, 2011
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There's no denying Coppola displays great understanding of wealthy ennui in Somewhere. And as a film stylist, she hits some fine grace notes. Still, she and we have been here before, and empty hotel life does have its limits.
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Orlando Sentinel
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4
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By Roger Moore
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Feb 25, 2011
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Breathlessly praised as poetry in some corners, occasionally dead-on in its depiction of the isolation and emptiness of film celebrity, "Somewhere" is a triumph of of tedium, banality passing for depth, a vacuous embrace of nothing.
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Associated Press
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0
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By Jake Coyle
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Feb 25, 2011
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Coppola is brilliant at capturing mood: With cinematographer Harris Savides, her languid camera depicts California melancholy. But substance isn't her game.
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Detroit Movie Examiner
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4
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By Tom Santilli
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Jan 14, 2011
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Genre: DramaOpens locally Friday, January 14th, 2011Run Time: 1 hour, 38 min, Rated RStarring: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Michelle MonaghanWritten & Directed by Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette)I wasn't a big fan of director Sophia Coppola's best known film, 2003's 'Lost in Translation', which won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, and saw nominations for Best Actor (Bill Murray), Best Director (Co...
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Phoenix Movie Examiner
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8
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By Joseph Airdo
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Jan 07, 2011
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Sofia Coppola's latest cinematic effort 'Somewhere' is, above all, an actor's movie.OK, sure, its primary character is an actor and it takes place in the strange world known as Hollywood, but 'Somewhere' also relies on the strength of its leading man's performance....
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Concrete Playground
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0
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By Alice Tynan
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Dec 21, 2010
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For all its restraint, slice-of-life naturalism and superb soundtrack, Somewhere is a film and a mood that you can sink into like a deep, comfy sofa.
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FILMINK (Australia)
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0
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By Erin Free
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Dec 21, 2010
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In its sweet, understated, but deeply meaningful story about making vital connections in an often desperately vacuous world, Sofia Coppola proves that, yes, she might have it all, but she still knows what's important in life.
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Chicago Tribune
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8
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By Michael Phillips
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Dec 21, 2010
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A small but, in its way, daring picture set largely within the confines of the Chateau Marmont just above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
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Variety
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0
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By Justin Chang
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Dec 21, 2010
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A quiet heartbreaker.
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Salon.com
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0
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By Andrew O'Hehir
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Dec 21, 2010
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Both Dorff and 12-year-old Elle Fanning give lovely, unforced performances. You can feel a tenderness building between them, and also a vast, upwelling reservoir of things they can't or won't talk about.
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Hollywood Reporter
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0
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By Deborah Young
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Dec 21, 2010
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Despite its subject, Coppola seems to be exercising more of her European than American sensibility in the small-scale intimacy of this portrait.
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LarsenOnFilm
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8
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By Josh Larsen
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Dec 21, 2010
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Coppola manages to capture the unique bond - the precious, platonic romance - that can exist between girls and their dads.
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Metromix.com
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8
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By Matt Pais
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Dec 21, 2010
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Perceptive in darkly comic ways, Somewhere is a mood piece, and that mood is 'whatever.'
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Spirituality and Practice
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6
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By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Dec 19, 2010
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A Hollywood actor and celebrity's close and intimate encounter with his 11-year-old daughter spurs the need for a change in his life.
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Compuserve
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7
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By Harvey S. Karten
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Dec 18, 2010
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With some success, director Sophie Coppola shows that money does not buy happiness.
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Slant Magazine
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9
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By Ed Gonzalez
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Dec 17, 2010
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That use of gorgeously subtle sound design and perfectly timed credits is a Sofia Coppola signature that she seems to have bettered through simplification in this film.
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Urban Cinefile
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0
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By Andrew L. Urban
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Dec 16, 2010
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A brutal exposition of the nothingness of the lifestyle
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Urban Cinefile
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0
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By Louise Keller
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Dec 16, 2010
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Dense, graceful and perceptive
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Flicks.co.nz
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6
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By Rebecca Barry
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Dec 14, 2010
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It's not hard to imagine Coppola as Cleo, the little girl growing up in her father's lavish world, seemingly unaffected, and the preternaturally mature Fanning is a stand-out in the role.
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At the Movies (Australia)
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7
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By David Stratton
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Dec 14, 2010
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The performances are terrific. I just felt she was sort of retreading this celebrity thing a bit.
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At the Movies (Australia)
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9
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By Margaret Pomeranz
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Dec 14, 2010
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I love the way Coppola pushes the boundaries on direction here. The way she holds scenes; the pole dancing scene is held for such a long time and it ends up being pathetic and funny and the ice skating scene is just breathtakingly beautiful.
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Film4
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4
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By Sophie Ivan
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Dec 13, 2010
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It's hard to believe that the filmmaker responsible for such an evocative, smart debut as The Virgin Suicides could create something so dull.
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Scotsman
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4
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By Alistair Harkness
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Dec 13, 2010
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In the end, the opening shot of a car doing laps seems unintentionally symbolic of Coppola's career. With Somewhere she seems to be going round in circles.
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Little White Lies
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4
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By Elliot V. Kotek
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Dec 10, 2010
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Sofia Coppola's fourth, curiously and unfortunately, seems destined to be quickly forgotten.
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Daily Mail [UK]
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6
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By Tim Robey
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Dec 10, 2010
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Coppola knows she's treading water here, but she's smart enough to make that in itself her film's subject, spinning an extra variation, perhaps this one last time, on the adage to work with what you know.
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Daily Mirror [UK]
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4
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By David Edwards
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Dec 10, 2010
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A smug, selfpitying sleepwalk through celebrity culture, it might make her Hollywood pals smirk, but it will likely make you snore.
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Radio Times
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6
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By Damon Wise
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Dec 09, 2010
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As a slow-burn, poetic character piece it works just fine, with Dorff and especially Fanning making engaging leads.
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Financial Times
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2
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By Nigel Andrews
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Dec 09, 2010
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Two hours of whimsical nothingness, playing variations on the superior Lost in Translation.
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Time Out
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6
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By Dave Calhoun
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Dec 09, 2010
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Coppola again shows how keen she is to show cosseted young girls and women struggling with their place in the world.
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Boxoffice Magazine
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7
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By Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Dec 08, 2010
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Stephen Dorff, who at first seems oddly cast, inhabits his role with the swagger of a wolf and the constitution of a sheep.
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Film.com
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8
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By Laremy Legel
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Dec 08, 2010
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That the movie is able to make us care is a testament to Coppola's prodigious gifts.
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Empire Magazine
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8
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By Ian Freer
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Dec 08, 2010
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It may not have Lost In Translation's reach, but it's original and smartly funny with top performances.
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Sky Movies
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8
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By Tim Evans
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Dec 08, 2010
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The movie unfolds at the same pace as Johnny's languorous life, a slow, seemingly pointless blurring of the days, but one that arrives at a touching moment of self-realisation.
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Total Film
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8
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By Jane Crowther
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Dec 08, 2010
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Self indulgent, repetitive, ambivalent. Loaded with long pauses and unblinking shots. Perhaps even pretentious. But it's also evocative, hypnotic, wry, moving and, like Lost In Translation, open to interpretation.
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Quickflix
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8
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By Simon Miraudo
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Dec 07, 2010
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We often easily overlook a sweet, unassuming and simple film such as this. Coppola, Dorff and Fanning have given us a beautiful gift; 98 minutes of love, real and true.
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News of the World
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8
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By Robbie Collin
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Dec 05, 2010
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Perfectly skewers the Hollywood airhead lifestyle.
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FilmsInReview.com
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0
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By Victoria Alexander
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Dec 02, 2010
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Goes nowhere very, very slowly. Nothing happens. Most dramatic moment? Dorff's character gets stuck in traffic.
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Laramie Movie Scope
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5
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By Robert Roten
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Dec 02, 2010
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Given that Sofia Coppola, a real Hollywood insider, wrote and directed this film, I believe that there is more than a little truth in this unique depiction of Hollywood stardom.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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8
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By Dennis Schwartz
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Dec 01, 2010
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It held my attention throughout and the film-making was first-class.
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ColeSmithey.com
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0
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By Cole Smithey
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Nov 27, 2010
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Excruciatingly narcissistic, "Somewhere" is a suspect milieu satire that favors enforced glamour over narrative complexity. This is one of the worst films of 2010.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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8
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By Emanuel Levy
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Nov 24, 2010
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After making the disappointing studio film Marie Antoinette, Coppola is back on terra firma with this intimate, often lyrical tale of father-daughter evolving bond, splendidly played by Dorff and Fanning and seductively shot by ace lenser Harris Savides
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Cinema Signals
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7
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By Jules Brenner
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Nov 23, 2010
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A character study of a successful actor leading a meaningless life--with motionless frames reflecting the idleness and ennui of the subject matter.
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Movies for the Masses
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2
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By Joseph Proimakis
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Nov 20, 2010
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Houston Movie Examiner
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4
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By Chris Sawin
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Nov 19, 2010
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THIS DOES CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS
Sofia Coppola seemed to have every Bill Murray fan and every indie film lover praising how fantastic her romantic drama Lost in Translation really was, but that was seven years ago....
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Fan The Fire
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6
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By Nick Deigman
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Nov 10, 2010
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This is not so much a dramatic narrative as a portrait of an artist as a young(ish) man. It is a story reminding us that stories don't really exist, and not even movie stars in Hollywood are living the fairytale lives we see on screen.
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Ultra Culture
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0
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By Charlie Lyne
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Nov 03, 2010
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Mercifully careful to avoid cliché, balancing the inate 'in-ness' of the whole thing with disarming honesty and delicate restraint.
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Shadows on the Wall
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7
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By Rich Cline
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Oct 30, 2010
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With a premise that's extremely similar to Lost in Translation, Coppola again takes an atmospheric look at celebrity that's heavier on internal mood than actual plot. But this film's more intriguing than engaging.
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ViewLondon
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8
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By Matthew Turner
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Oct 28, 2010
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Impressively directed and sharply observed, this is an enjoyable and engaging drama that features a superb soundtrack and terrific performances from Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning.
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Uncut Magazine [UK]
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Sep 28, 2010
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Dorff brings an unlikely charm to a role that, if played by a less sympathetic actor, could have seemed entirely critical.
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TIME Magazine
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0
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By Richard Corliss
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Sep 20, 2010
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Bless Coppola for keeping her camera still, but she goes to the other extreme, of European minimalism. Like Johnny, the movie is an object in stasis.
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Daily Telegraph
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6
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By David Gritten
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Sep 20, 2010
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Stylish, perceptive and often amusing.
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This is London
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8
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By Derek Malcolm
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Sep 20, 2010
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Dorff and Fanning play naturally and well -- Coppola gives them every chance.
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