Are You Here
Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: August 22, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
37
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
9
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 21, 2014
Every once in a while Are You Here strikes comedic gold. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 22, 2014
It’s funny, clunky, earnest, and barely credible, but it’s all of a piece. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 21, 2014
The problem with all of this is that Are You Here is less than two hours long and, to effectively explore issues and themes of this magnitude would require at least a full season of a TV series. So we're left with half-developed characters and quickly sketched relationships. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreAug 19, 2014
“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.” Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAug 21, 2014
Are You Here proves a gently immersive, ingratiating, often witty character comedy with a pair of comfortably effective lead performances. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 21, 2014
[An] endearing muddle, which flails in search of an identity. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 20, 2014
As a film, though, it amounts to less than the sum of its parts. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallAug 20, 2014
Mad 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. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyAug 13, 2014
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. He's swapped nuance for blunt-edged numskullery. Read full review
40
SlateWilla PaskinDec 15, 2014
Mad Men is a super-stylized, not particularly realist piece of work—that’s why it can feel as mannered as theater. Are You Here strives for a more grounded tone, but, what it gains in realism, it gives away in psychological acuity and emotional oomph. Read full review
40
The DissolveKeith PhippsAug 18, 2014
Weiner might have a great movie in him yet, but Are You Here suggests his true talent lies elsewhere. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeSep 16, 2013
One 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. Read full review
40
The GuardianChris MichaelSep 16, 2013
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. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaAug 22, 2014
If Matthew Weiner's Are You Here is good for anything, it's to illustrate how the themes and conflicts he has worked out with such depth and dexterity in all these seasons of "Mad Men" can go terribly amiss with the wrong actors, wrong backdrop, wrong tone, wrong time. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaAug 22, 2014
A comedy with no laughs. A drama disconnected from any known reality. It’s tempting to diagnose Are You Here with schizophrenic genre disorder. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigAug 21, 2014
The two main characters in Are You Here spend much of their time stoned or weeping. Those who watch this dreadful film may seek to escape or sink into despair as well. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 16, 2013
This tonal mess rarely puts a foot right as comedy and makes only marginal improvements when it turns poignant toward the end. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyAug 21, 2014
Everything about Are You Here feels like a bottom-drawer script idea that was put together too casually and carelessly. Read full review
25
New York PostSara StewartAug 20, 2014
As it stands, there’s little to explain the existence of this confoundingly unfunny film. It’s as if a talented cast (Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler) assembled to make a comedy and at the last minute was told to play everything straight. Read full review
25
The PlaylistChristopher SchobertSep 16, 2013
You Are Here is a shockingly inept comedy. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAug 21, 2014
The compelling Draper’s the creation of “Mad Men” mastermind Matthew Weiner, the writer-director of Are You Here. Which begs the question: how could Weiner make, as his debut comedy, a movie as amateurish and off-putting as this one? Read full review
20
Village VoiceChuck WilsonAug 19, 2014
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 full review
12
Slant MagazineTomas HachardAug 17, 2014
The female characters on Mad Men are probably the show's strongest asset, but here they're hollow to the point of insult. Read full review
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