This Must Be the Place
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64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics What's this?

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  • Starring: Eve Hewson, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Kerry Condon, Sean Penn
  • Summary: Cheyenne is a former rock star. At 50, he still dresses 'Goth' and lives in Dublin off his royalties. The death of his father, with whom he wasn't on speaking terms, brings him back to New York. He discovers his father had an obsession: to seek revenge for a humiliation he had suffered. Cheyenne decides to pick up where his father left off, and starts a journey, at his own pace, across America. (The Weinstein Company)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Joseph Jon Lanthier
    Oct 28, 2012
    88
    The film believes in maturity, but only as a freely continual process of acceptance.
  2. Total Film
    Reviewed by: Andrew Lowry
    Oct 27, 2012
    80
    Succeeding against the odds and adroitly blending its disparate elements, this is a fine entry into the Eurodirector-gawps-at-America subgenre.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Angie Errigo
    Oct 27, 2012
    60
    Determinedly quirky and cool, arresting and ultimately too baffling to be satisfying, although Penn is priceless. Cultdom beckons.

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