Where Do We Go Now? Reviews
Top CriticThe lack of flow and coherence in "Where Do We Go Now?'' leaves not only the characters, but also the audience, wondering where to go.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The movie is never quite bold enough to point out the contradiction of Muslims and Christians hating one another, even though they both in theory worship the same god.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Veering from wackiness to horror and then back again is the kind of balancing act that would challenge even the most talented filmmakers, and Labaki, for all her good intentions and daring ideas, just can't swing the shift.
sbs.com.au
Despite Labaki's unique narrative, flair for the visual and clear humanistic intent, her efforts, much like those of her sisters onscreen, feel like they have achieved very little.
Like the hashish-laced pastries the ladies make to sedate the male population, the film feels like it has been dosed with sugar to mask its distressingly bitter taste.
ComingSoon.net
It feels like a wasted effort that such a strong filmmaker would needlessly water down a serious topic for easier consumption like this.
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| Original Score: 5.5/10
St. Paul Pioneer Press
There are so many characters in "Where Do We Go Now?" that we never fully invest in them, and when Labaki tries to shift the direction of the movie, we're not sure what she's trying to say about them.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Daily Telegraph
The result is beyond disastrous, like some unholy attempt by Adam Sandler to update Lysistrata.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Slant Magazine
Never achieves either the seriousness or playfulness that it alternately seeks.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This is energetic, bursting with sincerity, yet also frustrating and disappointing.
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| Original Score: 2/5
RedEye
Aims for amusingly hypothetical but becomes offensively, naively silly.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Making a movie about sectarian violence in which the local religious figures are comically powerless, at worst, seems like too easy a path to take. Nothing springs from nothing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Time passes with a sense that nothing is really happening, until suddenly too much happens all at once.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Labaki never claimed to be Noël Coward, but the facile comedy leads to a dilution of the message she strives so strenuously to make.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
"Where Do We Go Now?" is more interesting than satisfying.
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| Original Score: C+
By the time the film takes a glib turn into role-switching farce-as Muslims become Christians and Christians become Muslims-the overall toothlessness of the satire becomes damningly apparent.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The meandering script occasionally has an unpolished feel, confusingly taking too long to flesh out parts of the story while making unsettling swings from comedy to tragedy and back.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
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| Original Score: 1/4
A satire in which pathos competes with light comedy and neither quite flourishes.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
The movie is set in a remote Lebanese village, but it's all over the map in terms of content and style. The elements never cohere, resulting in a film more admirable for its pacifist yearnings than for its execution.
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| Original Score: 2/4
