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.
