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By Michael Nordine (446) for Willamette Week (516) on 15 Jul 2014

Braff claims to have turned to Kickstarter to avoid financier interference, but nothing in Wish I Was Here feels out of the norm for an Indiewood…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 15 Jul 2014

There are enough sharp one-liners and funny situations to keep things entertaining even as Braff delves (lightly) into genuine dilemmas confronting…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 15 Jul 2014

If you liked “Scrubs,” and I did, for a few seasons, anyway, you’ll be happy Braff got to make his movie and happy that you got to see it…

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By Inkoo Kang (374) for TheWrap (3,203) on 15 Jul 2014

The death- and religion-obsessed Wish I Was Here is such a manifestly personal project that it's a shame it isn't even more idiosyncratic…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Jul 2014

Director/co-writer/actor Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here is a precious and condescending exercise in self-indulgent pandering, featuring one…

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By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 15 Jul 2014

When the film doesn’t strain for twinkly enlightenment, it stoops to find the easiest possible joke…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 14 Jul 2014

Some will find the director’s toothless brand of epiphany comforting (and download his mixtape), but the vast majority will find it tired…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 Jul 2014

Wish I Was Here is at least stretching toward something, and even if its reach exceeds its grasp, Braff's earnest determination as a filmmaker…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 14 Jul 2014

Braff hasn't made another generational statement, but rather a regurgitation of tropes that got old a long time ago…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Jul 2014

It's hard to see the fiscal woes at the center of Zach Braff's second feature as anything more than a fashionable depiction of first-world problems…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 13 Jul 2014

Wish I Was Here is an honest second feature from the mind of Zach Braff, and while some may deem it crudely self-indulgent, I believe there's…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 12 Jul 2014

Expect to be moved to tears by this poignant picture's bittersweet resolution and sobering, universal message about the importance of family…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Jan 2014

A more mature work from actor-director-producer Zach Braff that feels like a Garden State for grown-ups…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 27 Jan 2014

It feels as though it would have been better served as a six-part sitcom, where its sentimentality, broad comedy and fantasy elements wouldn't…

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By Scott Foundas (913) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Jan 2014

The result is unquestionably an auteur film, but one festooned with so many bad and unnecessary ideas that one can’t help wondering if a…

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By Cory Everett (35) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Jan 2014

Wish I Was Here is not a total disaster, but the tricky tone seems like it needed more time in the editing room to focus its story and trim…

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By William Goss (413) for Film.com (1,892) on 23 Jan 2014

Sprawling between plot lines and shifting between tones for longer than it ought to, but laden with enough pockets of truth to make you wish…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for GeekNation (86) on 20 Jan 2014

Phony, shallow, and completely disconnected from reality. To make matters worse, it thinks it's sincere, deep, and realistic…

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By Erik Davis (66) for Movies.com (1,002) on 19 Jan 2014

Ten years after Garden State, Zach Braff returns to directing with this funny and heartwarming take on fatherhood…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen International (2,241) on 19 Jan 2014

Eventually, one succumbs to this comedy-drama's tear-jerking assault, even if at the same time acknowledging the movie's navel-gazing limitations…

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