Reviews: Wish I Was Here (2014)

Reviews for this film from our members:

• Erik Childress @ Film Threat
  • Excerpt: Braff’s heart is very much “in it” as Natalie Portman’s Sam would say, and while his character fantasizes about science fiction role-playing, the complete storyteller is looking for the reality in our everyday fictions and how it applies to all of us.
• Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
  • Excerpt: Braff has made a coming of age saga for a grown man. It works in part, his central theme a good one, but his more puerile filmmaking tendencies weaken its impact. Hudson, however, is excellent, the most mature element of a too fanciful film.
• Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
  • Excerpt: For brief moments, Wish I Was Here gets it, only to return to its distancing ways.
• Travis Hopson @ Examiner
  • Excerpt: a heartfelt clarion call to arms for those with dreams that will never fade.
• Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
  • Excerpt: Zach Braff had to wait 10 long years to try and recreate Garden State’s magic…and he swings and misses.
• Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
  • Excerpt: Wish I Was Here is just never as organically messy or as transcendently life-affirming as it wants to be.
• Oktay Ege Kozak @ DVD Talk
• Kristen Lopez @ Award
  • Excerpt: Wish I Was Here is a vanity project trying to recapture the same themes, but Braff is no longer adrift
• Piers Marchant @ arkansas democrat-gazette
• Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
  • Excerpt: Never becomes anything more than an enemic sit-com leavened with heavy-handed doses of mawkishness. ‘Wish I Was Here’ will make you wish you weren’t.
• Mel Valentin @ Next Projection
  • Excerpt: A decade-in-the-making, deeply disappointing follow-up to Braff’s Garden State.