On the Rocks

The experience of roaming around New York’s lovely little craggy corners with Felix and Laura is just so pleasant it’s hard to be that...

Kudos to Coppola and her leading man. It takes guts to rewrite your biggest hit.

Who among of us wouldn’t want to go through a life crisis with Bill Murray seated on the other end of the table?

Coppola has a lot of fun exploring the conflict between father-daughter affection and sharp attitudinal divides, aided immeasurably by the ent...

The father/daughter bond is why the film is so enchanting. Watching Felix and Laura eat caviar in a convertible sportscar while on a stakeout...

On the Rocks is the most grounded of Coppola’s films, though its wit and charm are just as plentiful.

The appeal of "On the Rocks" rests almost entirely on the premise that it would be big fun to hang out with those two, listening to them riff.

One suspects we will think of Murray’s work here alongside the likes of Bette Davis in All About Eve. It’s the kind of turn that encaps...

The story is slight, but in Coppola’s hands the film is infused with small moments that provide gateways to deeper emotions.

For a while, the film teeters on the brink of sitcom territory, but rescues itself by introducing a degree of complexity in the proceedings.

In her best film in close to a decade, Sofia Coppola tries at long last to imagine some version of adulthood, in the most equivocal possible way.

A love letter to Manhattan, to music, to fathers and daughters, and to love itself.

The film is so fizzy that by the time the hijinks are over, you’re left to look down and realize that there’s not much there there. At...

Sustaining this kind of antic comedy is no small achievement, butthe film never wears out its welcome. Murray is utterly endearing. Coppola never l...

It’s a lightly carbonated story about the danger of trying to reverse the tide when life wants you to swim with the currents, and it&rsq...

There are few modern filmmakers who possess Sofia Coppola’s gift for capturing how our idealized, movie-fed ideas of "night life" reflec...

Murray is infuriatingly, but resolutely endearing, his relationship with Jones credible and full of regret and heart. And Jones is compelling as&nb...

If this isn’t quite as enveloping or precise as Coppola’s best work, it’s still studded with moments that feel master-crafted to...

It’s a comedy with screw-ball caper sides to it, but it’s also a film about fathers and daughters and generational gaps.

This is by far the warmest and most engaging film we have seen from Sofia Coppola, whose films have always made great use of spaces and silences.

There are worse sins than allowing a director to coast smoothly through her favourite moves.

If the emotional stakes never really seem all that crucial, Murray brings his own cosmic weight.

On the Rocks is a delight from beginning to end. Gorgeously acted, deeply felt, but remarkably light on its feet. Consider this review my love...

Like a strong drink, it sneaks up on you.

"On the Rocks" turns into a boozy humanistic hang-out caper movie, one that’s light-spirited and compelling, mordantly alive to the ins...

Bill Murray gives yet another great performance.

The movie’s movingly confessional, even penitent look at private and public abuses of power is a glance askance at Hollywood mythologies...

Each scene is compact and feels lived in, without any urgent narrative drive. That elegant surface makes it seem like a trifle, but there are...

A fine, frothy portrait of one woman’s midlife crisis.

It’s a hard task for both actors, requiring layers of shading. Lucky then that Coppola, in her seventh feature, has firm control of the...

You see in Felix the deadpan anarchic streak that has made Murray a force in American comedy for decades. At the same time, the actor seems to...

In the pantheon of perfect Bill Murray roles – "Caddyshack," "Groundhog Day," "Lost In Translation" – his smooth-talking character in the...

The two great comic stars quip their way through some snappy dialogue and amusing screwball comedy.

"On the Rocks" is perhaps more conventional and modest than Coppola’s other films, but it’s no less entertaining or profound.

This voyage around a father navigates territory that often seems overly smooth. Luckily, Murray and Jones provide all the jagged edges we need.

A film that knowingly lifts riffs from screwball capers and melancholy romcoms alike, writing love letters to the city of New York as it swirls fro...

This film is the slightest story Coppola has ever produced; it only brushes up against deeper insights during its brief running time. But the movie...

The film’s an amuse bouche made by people with the skills for a banquet. Don’t be surprised if you come away feeling a little empt...

As with all of Coppola’s pictures, it’s the layering of details that counts, the accretion of sly but not minor observations that come...

It’s a little zany, a little blue, emotionally jagged, adventurously all over the place.

Bill Murray and his 'Lost in Translation' director Sofia Coppola reunite to make screen magic, this time with a terrific Rashida Jones as a da...

No film this year is more likely to make you crave the comfort of a dark bar and some fine conversation, or make you want to call Mum and Dad.

Coppola’s minimalism can be frustratingly rather than productively diffuse, but her aesthetic reserve suits this story and the diffidence of...

I don’t usually come to Coppola for tidiness, for adorable antics, for a quick look inside the guts of the American cinema and its place...

An entertaining, wonderfully simple comedy with the qualities of a smooth martini – it goes down easy, but delivers a bit of kick.

Sometimes the film feels too affected, sometimes it seems like Coppola is on top of her game.

A deceptively wispy comedy from filmmaker Sofia Coppola that makes the most of Murray and often hints at deeper thoughts.