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- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger Moore“Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner takes his act to the big screen with Are You Here, which turns out to be the most quotable Owen Wilson comedy since “Zoolander.”
- 42Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIn 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. He's swapped nuance for blunt-edged numskullery.
- 42Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMad Men creator Matthew Weiner makes a troublesome filmmaking debut, wasting a dream cast for a comedy in a fitful story of family tension, mental illness and corrosive self-absorption.
- You Are Here ultimately suffers from a problem of tone. It wants to be a stoner bromance, a pastoral romcom and an incisive drama about mental illness.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeOne dead giveaway that the comedy isn’t working is the film’s score, which overcompensates throughout by attempting to bolster every second with bouncy energy.
- 40The DissolveKeith PhippsThe DissolveKeith PhippsWeiner might have a great movie in him yet, but Are You Here suggests his true talent lies elsewhere.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThis tonal mess rarely puts a foot right as comedy and makes only marginal improvements when it turns poignant toward the end.
- You Are Here is a shockingly inept comedy.
- 20Village VoiceChuck WilsonVillage VoiceChuck WilsonWriter-director Matthew Weiner, creator of the magnificent Mad Men, has made a feature film — theoretically a comedy — that's just shy of terrible.
- 12Slant MagazineTomas HachardSlant MagazineTomas HachardThe female characters on Mad Men are probably the show's strongest asset, but here they're hollow to the point of insult.