Lost in Translation

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Critics' Reviews

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
This year's must-see film.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity, and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
The connection between Bob and Charlotte, as Coppola shows it to us at the end of Lost in Translation, is a moment of intimate magnificence. I have never seen anything quite like it, in any movie.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Longer on atmosphere and observation than on story, but you don't mind: Coppola maintains her quietly charged tone with a certainty that would be unbelievable in a second film if you didn't suspect genetics had a hand.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
I loved this movie. I loved the way Coppola and her actors negotiated the hazards of romance and comedy, taking what little they needed and depending for the rest on the truth of the characters.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Simply put, Sofia Copolla's Lost in Translation is an amazing motion picture.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Here he (Murray) supplies the kind of performance that seems so fully realized and effortless that it can easily be mistaken for not acting at all.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
The fact that this kind of serious material ends up playing puckishly funny as well as poignant is a tribute both to Coppola and to her do-or-die decision to cast Murray in the lead role.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
As bittersweet a brief encounter as any in American movies since Richard Linklater's equally romantic "Before Sunrise."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
It gets at something exquisitely human, so human that even movie stars feel it.Read Full Review »
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