This Must Be the Place
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: November 2, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
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Generally favorable reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4
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33
IndieWireEric KohnNov 1, 2012
Guided by an over-the-top Nazi hunter played by Judd Hirsch (clearly enjoying himself), Cheyenne begins a road trip through Middle American that goes nowhere, and Penn's mopey has-been routine starts to feel like a bad joke that just keeps getting worse. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezNov 15, 2012
This Must Be the Place is as emotionally zonked-out as its protagonist, and just as difficult to warm up to. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleNov 9, 2012
Worst of all, in promoting its hero's eccentric journey as a voyage of healing, the movie replaces emotional precision and intellectual honesty with syrupy sincerity and insistence. It turns boring and cute and begs us to love it. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternNov 1, 2012
As juxtapositions go, regressed Goth rock star and Holocaust could hardly be more bizarre, and bizarre can be good when it's done deftly. In this case, however, it's done ponderously and sententiously. Read full review
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