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Wish You Were Here is the story of Lynda's messy coming of age. It's a movie to cherish -- bouyant, affecting, one of a kind. May 8, 2013 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Wish You Were Here is the story of Lynda's messy coming of age. It's a movie to cherish -- bouyant, affecting, one of a kind.
Jay Boyar
As Lynda, the belligerent, exhibitionist daughter of a strait-laced British shopkeeper, Lloyd is electrifying. She's a foul-mouthed Hayley Mills. May 8, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
As Lynda, the belligerent, exhibitionist daughter of a strait-laced British shopkeeper, Lloyd is electrifying. She's a foul-mouthed Hayley Mills.
Carrie Rickey
Just as Lynda's language is an affront to her neighbors, so is Leland's film an enthusiastic assault on the excessive gentility of so much British filmmaking. May 8, 2013 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Just as Lynda's language is an affront to her neighbors, so is Leland's film an enthusiastic assault on the excessive gentility of so much British filmmaking.
Dave Kehr
Wish You Were Here may always be thought of as the movie that first gave us Emily Lloyd. Or as David Leland's first directing achievement. May 8, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Wish You Were Here may always be thought of as the movie that first gave us Emily Lloyd. Or as David Leland's first directing achievement.
Sheila Benson
What makes it interesting is the character of the heroine; her refreshing rudeness disconcerts those around her. Mar 26, 2009 | Full Review…
What makes it interesting is the character of the heroine; her refreshing rudeness disconcerts those around her.
Variety Staff
The trouble is that Lloyd's loud, brattish performance makes Linda less a socially purgative Free Spirit than a pain in the neck. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
The trouble is that Lloyd's loud, brattish performance makes Linda less a socially purgative Free Spirit than a pain in the neck.
Geoff Andrew
The script by director David Leland was the perfect vehicle for his young star [Emily Lloyd] who is alternately hilariously rude and vulnerable, an unusual mixture for a woman or girl character in films, TV or literature even today. Mar 13, 2019 | Full Review…
The script by director David Leland was the perfect vehicle for his young star [Emily Lloyd] who is alternately hilariously rude and vulnerable, an unusual mixture for a woman or girl character in films, TV or literature even today.
Ren Jender
Although first-time director David Leland has a gold mine in Lloyd, he clutters the film with grotesque characters who give this small British town a surrealistic circus quality. May 8, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Although first-time director David Leland has a gold mine in Lloyd, he clutters the film with grotesque characters who give this small British town a surrealistic circus quality.
Leland has not, as I say, made up his mind as to which kind of film he is making, and so the mood of Wish You Were Here bounces uncomfortably back and forth between playful sass and grim decline-and-fall melodrama. May 8, 2013 | Full Review…
Leland has not, as I say, made up his mind as to which kind of film he is making, and so the mood of Wish You Were Here bounces uncomfortably back and forth between playful sass and grim decline-and-fall melodrama.
Ben Yagoda
Idyllic despite its inherent naughtiness, Wish You Were Here is a raunchy postcard from an age that exists largely now for filmakers to make of it what they want. May 8, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Idyllic despite its inherent naughtiness, Wish You Were Here is a raunchy postcard from an age that exists largely now for filmakers to make of it what they want.
As the title indicates, it's a film about yearning for someone dearly missed. Dec 26, 2005 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
As the title indicates, it's a film about yearning for someone dearly missed.
Dennis Schwartz
Wish You Were Here features a smashingly good performance by Emily Lloyd as a spunky, erotic, and out-spoken teenager. Apr 29, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Wish You Were Here features a smashingly good performance by Emily Lloyd as a spunky, erotic, and out-spoken teenager.
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