Here
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: November 1, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
39
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
21
Negative:
14

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
We Got This CoveredCharlotte SimmonsNov 1, 2024
Here plays not only by its own rules, but a whole other cinematic ballgame, and those who take the time to learn its language will be immaculately rewarded. Read full review
75
IndieWireRyan LattanzioOct 26, 2024
That Zemeckis and cinematographer Don Burgess manage to pack multiple lifetimes of experience into a single space, a fixed camera upon it, and mostly pull it off is quite a feat. Read full review
65
Film ThreatAlan NgOct 31, 2024
This is a thoughtful, visually inventive film showcasing Zemeckis’ continued willingness to push cinematic boundaries. Read full review
63
Washington PostChris KlimekNov 1, 2024
Ironically, it’s Zemeckis’s reluctance to embrace theatrical artifice over attempted photorealism that prevents “Here” from hitting as powerfully as it might. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliNov 1, 2024
In the end, I was more letdown by the movie’s inability to draw me in than impressed by its offbeat premise. Read full review
63
The Associated PressMark KennedyOct 29, 2024
Here fails to connect all these centuries of human experiences, other than to celebrate the human experience in all its messiness, triumph and sadness. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJan 15, 2025
The dreamy quirkiness keeps you watching and the folksy warmth of performances from Tom Hanks and Robin Wright encourage you to cut it some slack. Read full review
60
ColliderRoss BonaimeNov 1, 2024
It’s an experiment that only works here and there, yet when it works, there’s beauty in those rare moments. Read full review
50
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsJan 17, 2025
Where Gump managed to steal a nation’s heart with its hokey aphorisms and up with people outlook, Here actively repels with its generic insights into the evolution of family, society, civilisation, the whole bit. Read full review
50
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenNov 8, 2024
There’s a beating heart to the film, but it’s faint. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Radheyan SimonpillaiNov 1, 2024
There are melancholic bits later in the film that work – and reward anyone who sticks by the whimsical “time flies” structure. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittOct 31, 2024
This overly sentimental, unduly earnest journey based on Richard McGuire's graphic novel is more gimmick than substance, one overflowing with moments and characters that proves ultimately unfulfilling. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 31, 2024
For all of its ambitions, Here is ultimately too simplistic to work as either a domestic drama or a deconstruction of the same—an experiment in storytelling that turns out to be an object lesson in undercooked ambition. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonOct 31, 2024
Don’t force a plot to emerge. Better to experience “Here” like open-eyed meditation, nodding at connections and ideas so fragile they’d disintegrate if said aloud. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 30, 2024
The book’s melancholy spareness has been replaced by a “Here” existing somewhere in a pristine, remote suburb we’ll call Uncanny Valley Falls, a few miles away from real life. Read full review
50
Original-CinLiz BraunOct 30, 2024
Watching the movie Here is a bit like eating a Big Mac — it’s all fine and inoffensive in the moment, but you don’t want to look too closely or think about it too much afterward. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 30, 2024
This is a home run swing that results in a strikeout and a long trudge back to the dugout. Read full review
50
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiOct 28, 2024
Robert Zemeckis’ film “Here” is an object lesson in how to take a touching idea and make an extremely annoying movie out of it. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonOct 26, 2024
Although there are plenty of lyrical moments, Zemeckis’ lack of restraint and some questionable narrative choices undo what should be a moving affair. Read full review
50
IGNSiddhant AdlakhaOct 26, 2024
A one-angle drama spanning centuries, Robert Zemeckis' comic adaptation Here is experimental in appearance, but highly conventional in approach. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyOct 26, 2024
For a movie covering such an expansive passage of American life, Here feels curiously weightless. It’s no fault of the actors, all of whom deliver solid work with characters that are scarcely more than outlines. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 26, 2024
Affected and artificial to the point of aggravation, it’s an interminably draggy endeavor that gives the lie to its oft-spoken phrase, “Time flies.” Read full review
49
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiOct 27, 2024
All that effort and innovation and ambition amounts, in Zemeckis’ film, to little more than a mawkish intergenerational drama. Here genuinely seems to believe that the history of the world peaked with the possibility of mom and dad getting a divorce. Read full review
42
The Film StageCaleb HammondNov 1, 2024
This centuries-spanning journey is a shallow, inconsequential one. Read full review
40
EmpireLaura VenningJan 21, 2025
Another deeply flawed, tech-forward endeavour for Zemeckis in which glimmers of human emotion only occasionally break through. Like Cloud Atlas for baby boomers experiencing late-middle-age malaise. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJan 19, 2025
It’s an alienatingly ugly technique and a mawkish tear-jerker choked up with synthetic sentimentality. You start to envy the dinosaurs their extinction event. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 26, 2024
Director Robert Zemeckis clumsily replicates the fixed-camera conceit in what plays as an elaborate visual-effects experiment. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 1, 2024
It’s “Gump” rendered in the shallowest strokes, an “evocative” saga with all the depth of Billy Joel’s Boomer anthem, “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithOct 29, 2024
Here is all moments, some small and many big, but it’s lacking in gravitas, concerned as it is with tugging at our heartstrings by serving up little more than signifiers that we can project our own memories or personal baggage into. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeOdie HendersonOct 28, 2024
Couple the broad acting and cliché-ridden screenplay with the fixed-frame format, and “Here” comes off like a bad sitcom, or even worse, a school play made by a bunch of fifth-graders who decided to tackle Eugene O’Neill or “Death of a Salesman.” Read full review
35
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeNov 1, 2024
It’s an effect that gives viewers the feeling of being an audience member at a play or, more appropriately, at Disneyland’s old Carousel of Progress attraction, where a rotating stage showed tourists the same living room over the course of decades as fashions and technology evolved at each stop. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshNov 1, 2024
The story of Here surrounding Richard and Margaret is relatable, entirely predictable and utterly dull. Read full review
30
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiNov 1, 2024
It’s a film so soulless I questioned the point of it. Read full review
30
Rolling StoneDavid FearNov 1, 2024
On the page, the limitations somehow feel groundbreaking and expansive. Onscreen, the film somehow reduces the same notion of one angle/one thousand different moments to little more than a blinkered gimmick. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithNov 1, 2024
The inch-deep approach to history and social issues, the high-concept device, and the trite characters all seem better suited to a different type of movie—such as one of those gee-whiz featurettes shown at the EPCOT theme park. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreNov 1, 2024
It’s a bold formal choice to regard the world through a fixed point in space, and, unfortunately, it’s all in service of the biggest pile of schmaltz you’ll see this year. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedNov 12, 2024
Color it long, clumsy, gimmicky, schmaltzy and pointless. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiOct 28, 2024
Here is a work so cloying and ham-fisted in its attempts to move you that there is a point when you find yourself thinking that the only thing that Zemeckis hasn’t thrown into the mix is a needle drop of “Our House” and then he proceeds to do just that. Read full review
20
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJan 17, 2025
It’s bold in theory, a struggle to sit through in practice. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyJan 16, 2025
Zemeckis can’t let go of his ghastly conviction that everything has to be heart-tugging schmaltz. Alan Silvestri’s ruinously sickly score is his main accomplice. Read full review
20
The GuardianBenjamin LeeOct 29, 2024
For a film about living, Here is a remarkably lifeless endeavour. Read full review
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