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James Rocchi, MSN Movies: Sean Penn as an ex-rock-star Nazi hunter feels like a lot to swallow. It is. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The plot turns are playful as well as jolting, and the visual shocks are gentle: a bison on the porch, the world's largest pistachio, Mr. Penn in his makeup. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Bizarre can be good when it's done deftly. In this case, however, it's done ponderously and sententiously. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: In the end, "This Must Be the Place" isn't just bad. It's inappropriate. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The cast ... is outstanding, dragging the offbeat story through the occasional look-at-me distractions. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: This isn't a great movie, but it is a special one. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino handles the story with surprising thoughtfulness. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: This Must Be the Place gives Penn a chance to vamp and camp in ways that are sometimes touching and mostly annoying. Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Sorrento's talents for constructing visually arresting images and shooting things in an unconventional way are squandered on a pointless, meandering narrative led by an off-putting protagonist. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Negotiating a consistent artistic path as steadily as a drunk walking a straight line, This Must Be the Place is all over the place dramatically, tonally and thematically. Read more
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: If the movie doesn't entirely get past its hard-to-buy premise, director Paolo Sorrentino does have the courage of his convictions, not just embracing every contradiction but spinning many of the story's contrivances into moments of strange, aching beauty Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: This Must Be the Place is dazzling to behold. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Sean Penn has received a mantle's worth of humanitarian awards over the years. But he might have to give one of them back, just to make amends for "This Must Be the Place." Read more
Mark Jenkins, NPR: This mashup of genres and themes doesn't entirely succeed, but it is warm, funny and ably crafted. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Although "This Must Be the Place" holds our attention, it's a little difficult to say where it's headed. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The movie replaces emotional precision and intellectual honesty with syrupy sincerity and insistence. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: With its overbearing eccentricity, rib-nudging irony and confusion of tones, everything in the film is either underdeveloped or overstated. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Penn has created a colorful tour guide, but in "This Must Be the Place," there's no there there. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: You're left with the feeling that Sorrentino's eccentric story and daring style masks just another movie about the healing powers of the road. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: The film's numerous idiosyncrasies-virtues at the outset-ultimately suffocate it. Read more
Jay Weissberg, Variety: Quirky, hilarious and moving, Sorrentino's first English-lingo production is a road trip of stunning scope yet deep intimacy. Read more
Chris Packham, Village Voice: Penn is astonishing, creating a funny, guileless waif, infusing a faded celebrity figure with tactility and humor. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: If you give Penn (and the movie) a chance, the character works, movingly and somewhat miraculously. Read more