The culture has shifted in the two decades since Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson bonded in a Tokyo hotel for LOST IN TRANSLATION, one of Sophia Coppola's best.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 14, 2024

Just like the final words of Sofia Coppola’s film, the best parts of the movie are left indecipherable...

| Sep 29, 2023

...its pretty images of Tokyo and oddball intergenerational friendship coalesce into something unexpectedly moving...

| Mar 16, 2020

A marvellous, exquisite movie.

| Jan 11, 2018

Excellent but mature film about finding a connection.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 25, 2010

Lost in Translation revels in contradictions. It's a comedy about melancholy, a romance without consummation, a travelogue that rarely hits the road.

| Oct 5, 2008

Very much a mood piece, the film's deft balance of humor and poignancy makes it both a pleasurable and melancholy experience.

| Oct 5, 2008

With this film it becomes clear that Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker with eyes all her own.

| Nov 1, 2007

So far as the central relationship goes, the film is almost European in its subtlety and nuance. Cinematic cherry blossom.

| Jun 24, 2006

[Murray] can still do more with a raised eyebrow than anyone since Groucho Marx, but he's mellower and sometimes slightly poignant.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Mar 7, 2005

In Japan, the most extreme delicacy goes hand in hand with garishness, and Coppola offers up both for our delectation. It's a heady, hallucinatory combo.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2004

Bill Murray is one of the greatest, least ingratiating comic actors at work today: appropriately enough he once played a modern version of Scrooge.

| Jan 15, 2004

There's not a word or a wistful glance out of place in Sofia Coppola's offbeat comedy drama.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 15, 2003

Of course, Mr. Murray gets all the laughs with his exquisite timing and wry delivery, but Ms. Johansson makes an eloquent and charismatic listener.

| Oct 9, 2003

A film about catharsis, the kind that exists outside of movies: the slow reawakening, triggered by the compassion and like-mindedness of another, that everyone craves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2003

A stylish meditation on alienation and ennui.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Sep 20, 2003

Textured, thoughtful and touching.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Sep 20, 2003

There is real magic afoot in Lost in Translation -- the sort that is created not at the wave of a wizard's wand, but by the coming together of two wayward souls.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 20, 2003

How instinctively we react -- and connect -- when a film captures a feeling that is all too common, and all too real.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2003

In Lost in Translation, [Murray] emerges as a complete character -- honourable and venal, fallible and funny, adding vulnerability to the panache.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2003