Lost In Translation Reviews

Nothing happens and there is nowhere to go in Tokyo.

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Attractive and pleasant as it is, there's no escaping the impression that it feels like an overly hip exercise in soul-searching for those who thought American Beauty really did "look closer" at life.

Full Review | Original Score: 48/100

...director Sofia Coppola does a laudable - but ultimately unsatisfying - job of presenting a ships-that-pass-in-the-night scenario...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

How sorry can you feel for rich, unadventurous Americans in a major funk?

| Original Score: 2.5/4

This tedious vanity piece is enlivened only by the charm of its leading man, Bill Murray

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Because it lacks focus, as well as confidence in its story and stars, 'Lost in Translation' squanders a good opportunity.

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Another elusive non-story about oh-so-existential beautiful misfits

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

'There is a pronounced bitchiness about the film that sits oddly with the gentle subject matter.'

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The old adage says that poetry is what's lost in translation, but the poetry is all that survives in Sofia Coppola's wispy art film.

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When work this potentially satisfying remains flatly obvious, it's almost worse than being flat-out bad.

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Coppola lacks a firm grip on this material, and it starts to get away from her midway through.

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A film for any lost soul, anyone trying to figure where their life is headed and if they're happy about it.

| Original Score: 4/5

Director Sofia Coppola's second feature film is so smart and, yet, simple that it is nearly perfect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

[A] rich and funny film.

Murray, as Bob, gives the performance of his career.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

...charged with some of the same inchoate longing of Hiroshima, Mon Amour and employs some of the same guerilla production tactics of Godard's Breathless

Full Review | Original Score: A

Sweet and sad at the same time it is sardonic and funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

This study into the unfathomable depths of human relationships has more honesty than 95% of the movies I have seen this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

How to sing the praises of Lost in Translation without drowning out its subtle pleasures?

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Coppola is a master of moments and details, and here they add up to a story that is beautifully bittersweet.

| Original Score: A-