100
Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
Elegantly crafted and filled with flawless performances, this mysteriously charged drama comes alive in its very first frames.
Wish You Were Here
Critic Rating
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- Australia
- 2012
- · 93m
Director
Kieran Darcy-Smith
Cast
Joel Edgerton,
Teresa Palmer,
Felicity Price,
Antony Starr,
Nicholas Cassim,
Jessica Chapnik
Genre
Drama,
Mystery,
Thriller
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns not long after, a secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. But it's only the first of many.
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What are critics saying?
90
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Wish You Were Here is mystery moviemaking at its most intriguing.
90
The Hollywood Reporter by David Rooney
The visceral fireworks of the characters’ arguments and the disintegration of trust among them are observed with unsettling intimacy in the script and in the emotional honesty of the performances...This is terrific stuff.
75
Washington Post by Stephanie Merry
The ending is neither outlandish nor foreseeable, which is its own impressive accomplishment.
70
Variety by John Anderson
Despite its dubious inhabitants, the film consistently entertains by throwing the kinds of curves one should see coming but doesn’t.
70
The New York Times by Janet Maslin
Wish You Were Here has a quaint, inviting period look - the year is 1951, the setting a British coastal village - and a cast that's well attuned to Mr. Leland's brand of cleverness.
67
The A.V. Club
A pervasive mood of paranoia and unease overwhelms any immediate understanding of what’s going on. It’s fun to feel lost, at least for a spell.
67
Film.com by William Goss
Wish You Were Here goes to a dramatically gripping place of guilt and doubt; if only its grip had held just a bit tighter.
67
The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd
A pervasive mood of paranoia and unease overwhelms any immediate understanding of what’s going on. It’s fun to feel lost, at least for a spell.
60
Time Out
With greater faith in its material, the movie could have dispensed with its time jumps and saved the reveals for when they matter most.
60
Time Out by Sam Adams
With greater faith in its material, the movie could have dispensed with its time jumps and saved the reveals for when they matter most.
50
Village Voice by Zachary Wigon
Stories built around a mystery can have a difficult time creating a satisfying answer, and this picture is no exception.
50
The Playlist
Even though he only manages length and intensity when he’s aiming for emotional depth and dramatic sweep, Darcy-Smith does accomplish one rare feat with Wish You Were Here -- he somehow manages to tell a story that’s simultaneously mysterious and mostly uninteresting.
50
Slant Magazine by Abhimanyu Das
From the opening montage alone, it's clear that Australian director Kieran Darcy-Smith plans to play his cards close to the vest in this maddeningly underwritten thriller/domestic-drama hybrid.
40
New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier
Though much of the film is overcooked and overwrought, it’s well-played, and writer-director Kieran Darcy-Smith keeps us guessing, and watching.
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