Here 2011

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The trains of thought stirred up by the film's contemplation of what is here and what is there - and where you are - are endless and stimulating. And the movie is embellished with spectacularly beautiful, enigmatic bursts of abstract imagery. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: You must be willing to give yourself to Braden King's debut feature, a slow, meandering and sumptuously photographed road trip combined with an intimate love story. I gave, and I got. A lot. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: The unstructured, come-what-may quality of a road movie is part of its appeal, but it can be a pitfall, too, when all that spontaneity starts to look more like lollygagging. Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: The film captures some impressive landscapes and layers an eclectic mix of original and traditional Armenian music over its unhurried travel time. But unless you count doing a lot of vodka shots, this is a dramatically uneventful two hours. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: "Here" seems motivated by a tone of searching and yearning, not of finding a single way. As Foster's character says at one point, "Getting lost was the goal." Read more

Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: It becomes highly affecting, concerned both with the limits of mapping a landscape and with lovers' difficulties in navigating each other. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: [It] doesn't offer up a ton of narrative surprises, but there is plenty going on the screen to keep you engaged - and visually stimulated. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Viewers get ample time to luxuriate in the landscapes while gritting our teeth over Peter Coyote's pseudomythic narration and the sort of WTF meta touches that a first-year film student might find ridiculous. Read more

Karina Longworth, Village Voice: The dreamy, feverish beauty of these sequences just barely balances out the pretension of the exposition. Read more