Are You Here 2013

Sara Stewart, New York Post: There's little to explain the existence of this confoundingly unfunny film. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Are You Here is shot, cut like a quality cable series, and plotted like an adaptation of a Boomer writer's lesser novel. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: "Are You Here" doesn't feel all there. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: In Mad Men mastermind Matthew Weiner's big-screen directorial debut, the aggressively unfunny Are You Here, all of the dark humor and delicate character shadings we're used to seeing on his TV series are conspicuously absent. Read more

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: This sorry misfire will provide enjoyment only for rival television creatives invidiously rooting for Matthew Weiner to stumble. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: "Are You Here" proves a gently immersive, ingratiating, often witty character comedy with a pair of comfortably effective lead performances. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: How could Weiner make, as his debut comedy, a movie as amateurish and off-putting as this one? Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times: [An] endearing muddle, which flails in search of an identity. Read more

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: Are You Here is an infuriating blend of woozy farce, self-important social commentary and failed ambiguity. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Are You Here lacks more than just the question mark that should go on its title. It lacks a point-of-view that makes sense, that feels central. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's a tease: worthwhile in some ways but ultimately too diluted to offer a fulfilling movie-going experience. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Everything about Are You Here feels like a bottom-drawer script idea that was put together too casually and carelessly. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Weiner has not set out to make anything as trite as a buddy comedy, but he does attempt to inject humour and misses the mark. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's so formless, awkward and jarringly directed it's almost unwatchable. Read more

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: Writer-director Matthew Weiner, creator of the magnificent Mad Men, has made a feature film - theoretically a comedy - that's just shy of terrible. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It's funny, clunky, earnest, and barely credible, but it's all of a piece. Read more