There There
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: November 18, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldNov 17, 2022
The writer-director, Andrew Bujalski, zeros in on the delicate dances and negotiations between the people in these two-handers, which percolate with sly humor, decency, curiosity and sheer nerve. Read full review
75
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganNov 17, 2022
Andrew Bujalski, the filmmaker behind “mumblecore” touchstone Funny Ha Ha and tender workplace comedy Support the Girls, tackles unexpectedly embittered subject matter alongside unique pandemic challenges with There There. Read full review
70
Screen RantAlex HarrisonNov 18, 2022
There is a modest feeling to There There, and the emotional impact of its actual content might display the limits of this extreme methodology, but its (smartly brisk) runtime is hardly too steep a price to see a small movie explore such big questions with such clarity. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiNov 21, 2022
There There skews its world ever so slightly, arriving at some nicely off-kilter insights amid its non sequiturs, but for all its neat tricks, function is definitely following form here. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichNov 17, 2022
If the faintly amusing final product is pretty thin gruel when compared to the rest of its filmmaker’s output, the project’s high-concept construction is clever enough to sustain the meandering story it tells. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChris BarsantiNov 14, 2022
The artifice of There There certainly generates an added layer of frisson that might not have been there were the film shot under more conventional circumstances. But the root material has enough rich humanity and taut conflict to it that the result would have succeeded regardless. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubBrett BuckalewNov 23, 2022
If the resulting film feels like little more than the cinematic equivalent of a series of B-sides of varying quality strung together, it at least whets the appetite for the next proper cinematic album that Bujalski releases. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyNov 18, 2022
There There doesn't come to life, even as an intellectual or artistic exercise. Read full review
50
TheWrapMartin TsaiSep 30, 2022
Experimentalism isn’t a bad thing in and of itself, but the form, content, visuals, and motifs of There There aren’t inspired or interesting enough to warrant serious mental engagement. Read full review
42
The PlaylistJason BaileySep 30, 2022
The longer There There goes, the more it meanders and never into the realm of anything particularly funny or compelling. Instead, it plays mostly like a series of exercises – in writing, acting, and covid-era production. It feels like a movie Bujalski made to make a movie. Which is fine for him but doesn’t offer much to the rest of us. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSep 30, 2022
This far into the pandemic, with most Americans choosing to act as if it no longer exists, there may simply be no audience left for a gimmicky experimental narrative about people failing so completely to connect with those around them. Read full review
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