David Ansen (16 May 2012)

Casting the less-than-charismatic Dorff may bolster Coppola's thesis, but it's dramatically self-defeating. How can we feel for Johnny, when there's no there there?

David Gritten (16 May 2012)

Stylish, perceptive and often amusing.

Liam Lacey (11 May 2012)

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.

Tim Brayton (10 May 2012)

Even if Coppola always remains stuck in this tentative, half-formed mode, she's still more interesting than most of her peers.

Amy Nicholson (06 May 2012)

The nearly silent first half plays like Nanook of the North, only the ladies are wearing a lot less clothes.

(06 May 2012)

this movie sucked and bit at the same time

This movie was so bad I feel sorry for the people that actually took months out of their life to create it. Wow- our society has hit a new low

a (02 May 2012)

hard to rate movie: very slow rythm

...which starts right away from Scene 1 with a sports car making long endless circles in the dust. And the following movie looks like an attempt to show the daily spyral of someone very famous into personal abyss. Which it does show very well. But it takes true grit to survive the slowness of it. A lot of gratituous nudity. Overall as mildly depressing, as the lead character's life, but what is particularly nice - drama-free.But interesting nevertheless, showing what may be a window into the real lives of Hollywood cream crowd, except that I think it could have been better if it was in a different gear.I think it's really worth watching if you can muster the lethargic pace well.

Frank Swietek (01 May 2012)

Ersatz Antonioni...The protagonist may be bored with his life, but not as much as we are.

cobalt223 (28 April 2012)

TWOT-Total Waste Of Time

WARNING*****Do not waste your valuable time watching this trash thatnever goes anywhere. However if the sound of a Ferrari engine orwatching someone play a video game is enough to satisfy your sensesthen this is the motion picture for you! Sofia Coppola I hope isashamed to release this insult to movie fans. This is a motion picturethat you continually wait for some event to occur and it never does. Ithas about 5 minutes of content and the rest is useless filler of boringmindless over extended scenes to fill in the remaining 92 minutes. Ishould have stuck to my 5 minute policy: If it seems bad after 5minutes in, it will probably be disappointing. It was totally offensivethat they have the nerve to charge us to view this crap. What hashappened to standards in the industry to allow a motion picture of thislow caliber to be released. I am blown away by the rating attached tothis thing, the director, cast and crew members must have a huge poolof family and friends to pull the rating of this thing above a 2!

wbaholic (27 April 2012)

Worst Movie Ever!

This is without doubt, the worst movie ever made. Biggest pile ofpretentious crap to date. If you want to watch paint dry, peoplesitting around getting a tan, people smoking, and other assortednothingness, then this is the film for you.This has actually become a running joke between me and my Girlfriend.We made the mistake of buying it on DVD and we constantly loan it outto people telling them that it's a really great movie with a twistending. Little do they know that it's a piece of crap. If there's aSpider running across my floor then Somewhere would be the CD case thatyou would use to squash it.Honestly, it's that bad!

Annlee Ellingson (21 April 2012)

Coppola applies a delicate touch ... and Dorff seduces with a sensitivity that belies his B-movie resume. By the end, we not only feel for, but are moved by, Johnny Marco.

Peter Howell (21 April 2012)

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.

Derek Malcolm (19 April 2012)

Dorff and Fanning play naturally and well -- Coppola gives them every chance.

Matthew Pejkovic (18 April 2012)

Sofia Coppola restores her ever present gaze to the lifestyles of the rich and unfulfilled, and delivers her most poignant work yet in Somewhere.

Ken Hanke (12 April 2012)

Whether or not the journey from nowhere to the possibility of somewhere is worth taking is going to vary wildly from viewer to viewer.

Peter Canavese (11 April 2012)

Somewhere feels like it’s made by the grandchild of Antonioni (and, in an artistic sense, perhaps it is). It’ll drive at least half the audience crazy, while the rest will walk out with a light buzz.

Victoria Alexander (07 April 2012)

Goes nowhere very, very slowly. Nothing happens. Most dramatic moment? Dorff's character gets stuck in traffic.

Mike McGranaghan (07 April 2012)

If you hated not knowing what Murray whispered to Johansson at the end of Lost in Translation, you will hate Somewhere. Conversely, if you loved the fact that you don't know what he whispered, you will appreciate the beauty that Somewhere contains.

axekicker73 (05 April 2012)

Somewhere goes Nowhere.

This is the worst movie I've seen in 10 years. I say this because mydisappointment is directly proportional to the high hopes I had for it.In fact, I think it's breathtaking that the filmmakers actually thinkthey have award-show material on their hands. They are either on crackor had one too many bottles of wine. Not since Moulin Rouge has therebeen such an indulgent, myopic work - only this time, it's at the otherend of the spectrum where nobody talks, much less sings, and nothingreally happens. I'm not kidding.Basically, a lonely Hollywood movie star (Steven Dorf), lives in ahotel, and has too much money and time on his hands. When his ex-wifedecides to go find herself, he ends up hanging out with his daughter.They play Wii, they play table tennis, they go swimming, they eatbreakfast, and then he cries during a phone call with his ex (in a verycontrived scene for the award show judges), and then he moves out ofthe hotel he's been living in with a renewed sense of hope. That's theplot. I'm not being facetious either. You could take a 90-minute peebreak and not miss anything. Only Sophia Coppola could get away with such a pompous piece of work.It mistakes creative somnambulism for subtlety and portraiture for acharacter study. To even think that an audience would empathize withthis character goes to show you how far up her own behind Ms. Coppolahas traveled; she's turned into a kind of directorial Kurtz, onlythere's no Willard to go after her. I guess this is what happens whenyou grow up around Hollywood royalty. You actually come to believethere is something deeper here that's worth capturing. But there justisn't. I mean, the guy doesn't even overdose, or shoot up his room, ordo anything remotely interesting. Maybe that's the point of the movie.Somewhere ends up going nowhere. Something turns out to be nothing. Buthow on Earth did she get it into her head that Nothing and Nowherewould be engaging to a broader audience? And, of course, there are theobligatory scenes in Italy where the actor picks up an award, and ascene where he makes pasta (God forbid there should be a Coppola moviewhere someone isn't eating a plate of spaghetti). The whole film feels like a student short stretched out into an endless100 minutes -- only this student has way too much of a budget, and toomany Hollywood connections. (In fact, the credits reveal Francis andall his buddies behind this thing, go figure). I bet dollars to donutsthere wasn't even a screenplay to work from. It's as if she had a roughoutline and let the actors improvise. And if they had nothing to say,she filmed it anyway. I feel bad for Steven Dorf, because I know hereally prepared for the role. But you just can't frown a plot andcharacter arc into existence when it's not on the page.So take my advice and spend your hard-earned money elsewhere. Spend iton a film where the director actually strives to earn your 10 bucks bytaking you somewhere else. Go see The Town. It's an old-fashioned kindof movie, you know, with a plot and stuff. How boring if you're SofiaCoppola. I guess nowhere and nothing is so much more exciting whenyou've grown up going everywhere with everything.

JackCerf (05 April 2012)

A Disappointment

Coppola already told this story much better in Lost In Translation. Thereason is that Bob Harris is an immensely more interesting andsympathetic character than Johnny Marco.Bob is intelligently bored. He understands himself and how he hasgotten to where he is in his life. He has regrets but no self pity. Hisincomprehension of Tokyo is the incomprehension of an intelligent manamused at his own inability to understand what is going on around him.He is both intellectually and emotionally engaged with Charlotte. Hehas integrity, which is why he goes to bed with the lounge singer, withwhom the sex means nothing, and not with Charlotte, which would involvean emotional commitment he knows he can't keep and is too honest tomake. It's possible to sympathize and to care what he does.Johnny is mindlessly bored. He wanders stupefied through a daze ofalcohol, pills and gratuitously available sex. He's almost completelyinarticulate, and if he ever has a thought in his head we don't knowit. He is completely irresponsible, more of a child than his daughter,only with no innocence and different toys. Johnny Marco is essentiallya dumb animal living a life of transitory sensation and incapable ofimagining anything else. What happens to him matters not at all.The most you can say about Somewhere is that it takes the beercommercial view of the world and tests it to its extreme. Johnny isliving the dream of every 18 year old slacker, and, not surprisingly,the dream turns out to be completely empty. This is not news, and it'snot 2 hours worth of movie.