‘Here’ Review: Robert Zemeckis Turns Back the Clock on Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and It Ain’t Pretty
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic In Hollywood, most movies tell stories. But not “Here.” Adapted from a conceptual graphic novel by Richard McGuire where the perspective is the same on every page — the living room of a century-old American house — while windows within each frame reveal actions from different years, if not entirely separate epochs, “Here” is about an idea.
Have you ever sat in a place — maybe a hotel room, a park bench or a remote clearing — and wondered what happened there before?
How many people have kissed on that exact spot? Or fought, or fallen in love? And what does that say about human experience, that people can be linked by common actions, and places can hold both memories and secrets?
There are deep thoughts to be found down such rabbit holes, and a film version of “Here” points in roughly the right direction, only to get distracted by a handful of far shallower threads — namely, the disappointingly generic lives of four families who inhabit the same space at different times.
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