Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 11, 2025 1.5/4

Sofia Coppola's 2003 Lost in Translation was such an unblinking masterpiece -- one of the two or three best films of its entire decade -- that it's a shock to witness the near-worthlessness of Somewhere.

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Tom Spoors Loud and Clear Reviews Jan 7, 2025 4/5

Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere starts off unlikeable, but those who persist will be rewarded with a moving examination of the importance of our relationships.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Oct 4, 2022 B

Sofia Coppola is a gifted director: she has clear and present control over mood and milieu; she gets the performance she wants out of Dorff and a much more endearing and revealing turn from Fanning. But the script is undercooked.

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Rene Jordan El Nuevo Herald (Miami) Aug 10, 2022

Analyzing Somewhere is so difficult, and useless. [Full review in Spanish]

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Diane Carson KDHX (St. Louis) Mar 17, 2021

Coppola brilliantly captures the state and Johnny's boredom, but so little happens that the end result is a dull, downer of a film.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker Apr 14, 2020

...one of the great cinematic portraits of a city.

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Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper Jan 21, 2020

While Dorff seems to be playing a variation on his own bratty star persona, Fanning is absolutely luminous and butterfly-delicate in Somewhere, and she's the real reason to take this journey.

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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Nov 16, 2019

A hopeful, lovely, easy breezy charming piece of moviemaking, Somewhere is going everywhere.

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David Harris Spectrum Culture Nov 6, 2019 2/5

Somewhere is a lifeless exercise of routine and repression.

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Nikki Baughan Roll Credits Oct 23, 2019 3/5

Probably the subtlest film in Coppola's short career to date, Somewhere is collection of snapshots and episodes, without payoff in the conventional sense. It simply builds to a cumulative evocation of aimlessness, like a holiday without end.

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Guillem Martinez Oya Cinematismo Jul 22, 2019 3.5/5

A story about the ordinary of being a star in the movie business. [Full review in Spanish]

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Feb 4, 2019 4/5

Coppola riffs on her familiar signature of style (diegesis as time, observation and the senses, rather than dramaturgy) and subject matter (cocooned, disaffected malcontents).

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Tara Thorne The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Nov 17, 2018

More tone poem than film, Somewhere finds Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) at her most untethered and experimental.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Aug 30, 2018

Somewhere has its funny moments, and its clever moments, but the blankness and passivity of the central character make it peculiarly remote, as if you were watching it from a million miles away.

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online Sep 8, 2017 D+

Somewhere is like a slow-moving bullet with no clear aim.

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Lindy West The Stranger (Seattle, WA) Aug 25, 2017

Somewhere, regrettably but unsurprisingly, is that same old yarn all over again-artfully crafted, intermittently amusing, relentlessly self-indulgent, and structurally identical to Lost in Translation.

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Katelyn Beaty Christianity Today Apr 11, 2017 3/4

[Somewhere] is Coppola's subtle character study of a man who is barely a character.

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Ray Pride Newcity Jun 14, 2015 9/10

It offers satisfactions and contentment: It's a succession of sensations, of being adrift in a city where the weather seldom changes, where the stars are always young, where children must make their own way. The sky is blue and clear.

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Sean Burns Philadelphia Weekly May 3, 2015

It's more of a vibe than a movie. The atmosphere is enticing, I just wish it added up to more.

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Blake Griffin We Got This Covered Nov 11, 2013 10/10

Unflinchingly honest and confidently challenging, this is an all around incredible film.

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