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On the Rocks

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Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
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On the Rocks isn't as potent as its top-shelf ingredients might suggest, but the end result still goes down easy -- and offers high proof of Bill Murray's finely aged charm.

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Nell Minow AWFJ.org 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. Dec 2, 2021 Full Review Anna Smith Monocle [The characters live] quite a privileged existence, but one that's quite a pleasure to watch. Mar 13, 2021 Full Review Donald Clarke Irish Times There are worse sins than allowing a director to coast smoothly through her favourite moves. Rated: 4/5 Feb 15, 2021 Full Review Geoffrey Macnab iNews.co.uk Coppola keeps matters light, but the humour here has a sharp and icy edge throughout. Rated: 4/5 Jan 16, 2025 Full Review Paul Klein FILMHOUNDS Magazine Coppola knows how to frame Murray so that his tired, fed up look gets the best lighting, and a low energy car chase is actually quite enjoyable Rated: 3/5 Jul 4, 2024 Full Review Shadan Larki InSession Film On The Rocks is the movie equivalent of a perfect fall treat, warm and comforting. And very much worthy of your time. Rated: B+ Apr 19, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Isa B Uninteresting. Predictable. This film suffers from a weak plot. Not even the great Bill Murray could save the day on this one. Having said that, it isn't horrible or anything. It just isn't very good. Sofia Coppola can obviously do much better. I don't recommend. 71/100 Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/11/25 Full Review Stephen C Funny in 1 hour and 36 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/10/25 Full Review James W Lazy... Sofia Coppola's script is really lazy. Most of this film is people saying hello and goodbye because Coppola can't lead an intriguing narrative in its most basic form. Bill Murray's pretty good but when it comes to sincere emotion he can't do it. He's never been able to show true emotion on film and in this one you can't help but think he's mocking the scene. Marlon Wayans is miscast (but Coppola's character for him is 2 dimensional). The best thing about this is Rashida Jones. Not a great film. If her last name wasn't Coppola, this script would be sitting in a file on a computer lucky to be read by more than friend. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/19/25 Full Review Kim P A movie about "real life"...with some unusual events and Bill Murray's larger-than-life daddy presence. Which means...it tends to be mundane and boring. In the real world, there would have probably more negative fallout between the couple over the issues that caused the misunderstanding and lingering hurt feelings of neglect, betrayal and lack of communication but in all, this was a G-rated slice of a very tame lie. Not very compelling. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/12/25 Full Review Benjamin G What I like about this film is the pleasant investigative mystery of normal relationship issues that is quite modern that goes into full detective mode by the middle of the film. The socially commentative Bill Murray adds an air of sophistication and humor that keeps the film light/fun and intriguing and charming that can be difficult to balance with such real-world content. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/30/25 Full Review Juliana F I wanted to enjoy this film but it was simply terrible. I couldn’t even get through more than about 35 minutes of it; maybe some would say then I shouldn’t review it, but this fact only supports my stance of it being worse than unwatchable. Consider yourself warned. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/07/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.
Director
Sofia Coppola
Producer
Sofia Coppola, Youree Henley
Screenwriter
Sofia Coppola
Distributor
A24
Production Co
American Zoetrope, A24
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 2, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 23, 2020
Runtime
1h 36m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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