The experience played out is inert and mawkish, and the movie is in the end mainly a technical experiment: a film of a book that traps the quality cast in a stage act.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2025

If these walls could talk they'd be asking to be demolished after being held captive alongside generations of boring humans engaged in cliched simulations of nuclear familial dysfunction.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 21, 2025

Conceptually, the film’s attempt to tell a familial drama on a cosmic scale is fascinating. In practice, though, the script is overloaded with so much sentimentality that it harms the intimate story this film wants to tell.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2025

Another deeply flawed, tech-forward endeavour for Zemeckis in which glimmers of human emotion only occasionally break through. Like Cloud Atlas for baby boomers experiencing late-middle-age malaise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2025

Here may be a prodigy of hyper-choreographed trickery, but its folksy self-importance suggests a less fleet-footed variant on Zemeckis’s Forrest Gump...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2025

It's not mawk-ish; it's mawk. It's just the most saccharine, sentimental, fatuous, surface-scratching non-sense.

| Feb 1, 2025

There’s a chance Here will wear down your cynicism, but a far greater chance this mega-clunker will wear you down to your very last nerve.

| Jan 31, 2025

The film is filled with fascinating ideas and the best premise of any 2024 movie. But thanks to heavy-handed dialogue, ham-fisted directing, on-the-nose messaging and overly broad acting, it’s one of the most disappointing movies of the year.

| Original Score: 2.25/5 | Jan 31, 2025

What we see [in Here] is a soulless story, fueled by a machine that surprises no one after revealing its only trick early on. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 31, 2025

Here is otherwise oddly lifeless for a film about embracing life while you can.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2025

This garish tomb of a film insists it’s full of life.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 30, 2025

Like too many stage plays, the movie shows the death of a marriage by slow asphyxiation — although it’s hard to tell whether it’s the marriage or the film that is doing the asphyxiating.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 27, 2025

It’s like watching the Sims get dementia, and all it says as art, despite the grossly saccharine intentions of the film-makers, is that life is cruel, empty and beastly short, and we’ll probably spend most of it trapped in a house.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2025

Since there isn't an overall plot, it all feels a bit random. But each vignette is beautifully observed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 21, 2025

It’s an alienatingly ugly technique and a mawkish tear-jerker choked up with synthetic sentimentality. You start to envy the dinosaurs their extinction event.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 21, 2025

Here may boast the involvement of remarkable filmmaking & acting talent, but the result is a heavily-distracted, wandering film that has an awful lot of trouble keeping the focus where it needs to be.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 21, 2025

... The film is so self-conscious in its pursuit of what is an essentially unattainable goal, that it all ends up coming across as re-fried soap opera.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2025

What’s worse than dull spectacle? Dull spectacle that pretends to be profound. Beneath the rousing score and grand visuals is a film with nothing much to say. A waste of talent and resources.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 17, 2025

Ultimately, this story represents one of the first successful uses of de-aging technology

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2025

It's a shame that the devices Zemeckis had at his disposal were not used to their full potential, and not just for technical show. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 17, 2025