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100
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
Here he (Murray) supplies the kind of performance that seems so fully realized and effortless that it can easily be mistaken for not acting at all.
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100
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
The fact that this kind of serious material ends up playing puckishly funny as well as poignant is a tribute both to Coppola and to her do-or-die decision to cast Murray in the lead role.
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100
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
I loved this movie. I loved the way Coppola and her actors negotiated the hazards of romance and comedy, taking what little they needed and depending for the rest on the truth of the characters.
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100
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
A delicate, beautifully observed study of impossible romance, Lost in Translation is one of the best films this year.
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100
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Giddily funny in a singularly American idiom, and shot, by Lance Acord, with an eagle eye for cultural absurdities, Ms. Coppola's film is also a meditation on love and longing, shot through with a sensibility that's all the more surprising for being so unfashionably tender.
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90
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It gets at something exquisitely human, so human that even movie stars feel it.
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88
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Don't stall about seeing Sofia Coppola's altogether remarkable Lost in Translation. It's a class-act liftoff for the fall movie season. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson give performances that will be talked about for years.
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88
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USA Today Mike Clark
Romantic comedies with two low-key leads can be asking for trouble, but one senses that the actors must have clicked on some fundamental level.
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80
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
Thanks to two delightful performers, you're drawn powerfully to the outcome.
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