Penn's performance as the rockstar offers slight moments of eccentricity, but his road trip turns dull and loses substance when it stops to interrogate the platitudes of loneliness, old age, and the need for self-discovery. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 27, 2023

In tragicomic and pompous tone, Sorrentino once again gloats over the pathos of his characters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Oct 4, 2022

It elicits a form of emotional rapture that is either the story's themes subtly catching up on the viewer or Sorrentino's shamanistic direction papering over the film's cracks

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 27, 2020

A film that manages to give us a humorous and amusing performance from Penn, who dominates every frame, but resists blending successfully with the rest of the narrative.

| Aug 6, 2019

This Must Be the Place is somehow simultaneously heavy and light-hearted; the comic element barely there yet tangible, the starker elements significant, though not excessively dwelt upon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 4, 2019

In a world where the useful, the functional has a place, the opposite of what is known as it, is implausible; leftover That's the state of Cheyenne. A film about nothing but meanings. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2018

It's a beguilingly strange, distancing, even discombobulating venture, at times gently lyrical, at others nightmarish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2018

The conceit of showing a pop-culture figure's life out of the limelight is beyond hackneyed, but the film's incongruous visual splendor and Penn's all-or-nothing commitment keep Sorrentino's unabashed folly afloat for a while.

| Jun 28, 2013

Sorrentino's aggressively life-affirming movie has wormed its way into the hearts of a surprising number of usually sensible, discerning critics.

| Jun 20, 2013

As oddly magnetic as Sean Penn's performance is, the film seems more preoccupied with being quirky and puzzling than with telling a cohesive, satisfying story.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2013

"It would take a week mucking out a pork pie factory to acclimatise for a hamfest as nauseating as this."

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 4, 2013

Penn's Cheyenne is endearing and ultimately a little bit heartbreaking.

| Dec 28, 2012

... a fascinating character study that goes beyond simple quirks and mannerisms.

| Nov 22, 2012

Penn has created a colorful tour guide, but in "This Must Be the Place," there's no there there.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2012

Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino handles the story with surprising thoughtfulness.

| Nov 16, 2012

Hits some wild notes but never quite finds its niche

| Nov 16, 2012

Sean Penn performs another one of his amazing transmogrification acts as the rock star Cheyenne in This Must Be the Place.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 16, 2012

Feels like a cult movie waiting to happen, or perhaps a mad experiment gone wrong. Either way, it's worth watching Penn, perhaps unwittingly, taking Jeff Spicoli to the burned-out end we might have guessed for him back at Ridgemont High.

| Original Score: B | Nov 15, 2012

The cast ... is outstanding, dragging the offbeat story through the occasional look-at-me distractions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2012

Adjust to the Oscar winner's deadpan cartoon impersonation, and you may get on the wavelength of this quirkfest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2012