Review 1:
"...One of the purest and simplest examples ever of a director falling in love with her star's gifts. And never has a director found a figure more deserving of her admiration than Bill Murray..."
Source: New York Times
p.E1 09/12/2003
Review 2:
"...The joys of Sofia Coppola's LOST IN TRANSLATION come from watching Murray modify his trademark passive-aggressive style into played-straight comic bewilderment....This is a career worth watching and a movie worth watching, too..."
Source: USA Today
p.1E 09/12/2003
Review 3:
"...The film itself -- tart and sweet, unmistakably funny and exceptionally well observed -- marks the arrival of 32-year-old writer-director Sofia Coppola as a mature talent with a distinctive sensibility and the means to express it..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.C1 09/12/2003
Review 4:
"...Sweet and sad at the same time it is sardonic and funny....Bill Murray has never been better..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.31 09/12/2003
Review 5:
"It's packed with incident....It's all in Murray's face....It's a magnificent performance that doesn't seem like acting at all..."
Source: Uncut
p.139 07/01/2004
Review 6:
"...What's astonishing about Sofia Coppola's enthralling new movie is the precision, maturity and originality with which the confident young writer-director communicates so clearly in a cinematic language all her own..."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.65 09/19/2003
Review 7:
"...Altogether remarkable....LOST IN TRANSLATION is found gold..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.124 10/02/2003