- Starring: Antony Starr, Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer
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Summary:
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South East Asian holiday. Only three return home.
Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia?
- Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 14
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Mixed: 6 out of 14
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Negative: 1 out of 14
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100Elegantly crafted and filled with flawless performances, this mysteriously charged drama comes alive in its very first frames.
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90The 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.
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90Wish You Were Here is mystery moviemaking at its most intriguing.
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Jun 4, 201360With greater faith in its material, the movie could have dispensed with its time jumps and saved the reveals for when they matter most.
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50Stories built around a mystery can have a difficult time creating a satisfying answer, and this picture is no exception.
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Jun 3, 201350Even 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.
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25A dull drama about domestic squabbling that hopes to be mistaken for a thriller.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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