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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "Heartfelt and wry..." (Read the full review...) 33 words, 10/06/11 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: EXCELLENT (cg) "There's a contemplative loveliness to 'The Way,' an affecting personal project both for Emilio Estevez, who wrote, directed, and plays a small role, and for his father, Martin Sheen." (Read the full review...) 84 words, 10/07/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "...really a gift from this son Emilio to his father Martin. Sheen, gradually revealing a man painfully getting reacquainted with long buried feelings, gives the film its bruised heart." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 10/07/11 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a rare film that captures the sense of awe felt in centuries-old churches.... also celebrates companionship and community, which are all good reasons to embrace the experience..." (Read the full review...) 486 words, 11/11/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a nice film. Not great, not urgent, but quietly positive." (Read the full review...) 515 words, 10/07/11
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...not an 'inspirational film' in the usual, syrupy sense; none of these people are overtly finding God on this trek. The beauty of the movie, in fact, is that Mr. Estevez does not make explicit what any of them find, beyond friendship." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 10/07/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...rarely subtle, the pace is decidedly unhurried, and the supporting performances are uneven. Then again, the scenery is lovely, [Martin] Sheen's turn is marvelously nuanced, and his emotional investment in the story is palpable." (Read the full review...) 312 words, 10/07/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...gentle drama offers an intriguing look at the contemporary version of an ancient ritual.... a well-meaning, if too neat and orderly, portrait of modern-day peregrinos seizing the day." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 10/07/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has a modesty you seldom see when Hollywood tackles spiritual subjects.... it's firmly grounded in emotional honesty by Martin Sheen, who is simply terrific in his first feature-film lead in many years." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 10/07/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: MODERATE (cg) "Sweet but pat... the script settles for ordinary observations about living life fully and opening your eyes and your heart to the world." (Read the full review...) 338 words, 10/07/11 John Anderson, New York Newsday: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Overly earnest, but so well-meaning one can't help but be touched." (Read the full review...) 340 words, 10/21/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a nice film. Not great, not urgent, but quietly positive." (Read the full review...) 515 words, 10/07/11 Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...trades in a kindred brand of warm, soothing uplift that viewers might read as insight into the Sheen family saga; we did not.... dramatically inert, spiritually generic... seems like it was far more fun to shoot than it is to endure." (Read the full review...) 223 words, 10/05/11 Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "Estevez takes full advantage of the beautiful mountain scenery, dramatic skies and ancient architecture to give us moments of quiet wonder." (Read the full review...) 533 words, 11/04/11 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...as allegorical outings go, this doesn't really stack up to excursions past. Where's the ribald fun that Chaucer had with his 'Tales,' or the philosophic rigour that Bunyan added to his 'Progress'?" (Read the full review...) 635 words, 11/04/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Estevez, who plays the dead son in flashbacks, is working at something meaningful here, and if his spiritual points never quite crystallize into something dramatic, his film does reach a gentle catharsis by the time the journey ends." (Read the full review...) 131 words, 11/03/11
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "Funny, moving, hip and transcendent... both deeply thoughtful and enormous fun to watch. Its rewards are as rich for the secular as for the more spiritually inclined.... Estevez has made a movie of beauty, humor and disarmingly humble devotion." (Read the full review...) 579 words, 10/07/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "A heartfelt project, scrappy and engaging... has its way with audiences despite, not because of, its sentimental excess.... the actors find something genuine in the material, and the rapport among these strangers-turned-friends feels genuine." (Read the full review...) 503 words, 10/07/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a warm, engaging blend of charm and travelog.... a plucky film that covers a lot of ground and uncovers this wonderful, ancient ritual that people of many faiths and from all walks of life take on." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 10/02/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...refreshingly sincere.... 'The Way' is good without being goody-goody." (Read the full review...) 394 words, 10/14/11 Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Essentially a buddy road-trip flick transformed into a spiritual (but pointedly not religious) sermon... Along the way, there are some lovely moments and far more awkward ones." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 10/14/11 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: MODERATE (cg) "Earnest, inspirational, nice, dull.... Somewhere along the voyage, a viewer may feel free to give in to the temptation to chuck his or her own cynicism and come along for the stroll. That's fine; if nothing else, 'The Way' is a good, cheap vacation." (Read the full review...) 549 words, 10/07/11 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "...a respectable failure.... Every so often, there's a glimmer of the movie Estevez was trying to make and thought he was making. But then in the next moment, it's gone, lost in an onrush of clumsy scenes and canned characters mouthing false dialogue." (Read the full review...) 513 words, 10/21/11 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (cg) "The performances are solid, the cinematography is stunning, and the setting is intriguing. But the whole thing feels bloodless, hitting us over the head with its understatedness." (Read the full review...) 275 words, 10/07/11 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...might have been a bit more eventful. Still, it's good company." (Read the full review...) 322 words, 10/07/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: EXCELLENT (cg) "...contains blissful moments of clarity and awareness that few movies have lately. You walk out of the theater feeling better about yourself. Not enough to hike 900 miles or chase birds around North America, but it's a start." (Read the full review...) 527 words, 10/20/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "...it's all fairly expected and a bit fuzzy on the spiritual side.... Still, the performances are fine -- really, Sheen is a master -- the spirit is upbeat, the landscape gorgeous and if the simple truths are simple, they're still true." (Read the full review...) 292 words, 10/21/11
Nick Schager, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...trades in a kindred brand of warm, soothing uplift that viewers might read as insight into the Sheen family saga; we did not.... dramatically inert, spiritually generic... seems like it was far more fun to shoot than it is to endure." (Read the full review...) 223 words, 10/05/11 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...treacly inspirational drama..." (Read the full review...) 151 words, 10/06/11 Tasha Robinson, AV Club: GOOD (cg) "...starts out as 'Eat Pray Love' and takes a long, surprising trip toward becoming David Lynch's 'The Straight Story.' And that's a longer trip than a mere monthlong trek across Spain." (Read the full review...) 420 words, 10/06/11 Andrew Schenker, Slant: POOR (cg) "No doubt this all has a lot of meaning for the filmmaker, but for an allegedly personal project, there's far too much of the generic in Estevez's movie, particularly in its embrace of the blandly grand gesture." (Read the full review...) 651 words, 10/02/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Estevez, who plays the dead son in flashbacks, is working at something meaningful here, and if his spiritual points never quite crystallize into something dramatic, his film does reach a gentle catharsis by the time the journey ends." (Read the full review...) 131 words, 11/03/11 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Estevez has captured a sense of spirituality as a universal human experience that is as robustly physical and carnal as it is cerebral, and one that does not necessarily have to have anything to do with the supernatural. I love this movie unreservedly..." (Read the full review...) 302 words, 10/13/11
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...not an 'inspirational film' in the usual, syrupy sense; none of these people are overtly finding God on this trek. The beauty of the movie, in fact, is that Mr. Estevez does not make explicit what any of them find, beyond friendship." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 10/07/11 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...gentle drama offers an intriguing look at the contemporary version of an ancient ritual.... a well-meaning, if too neat and orderly, portrait of modern-day peregrinos seizing the day." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 10/07/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: GOOD "If 'The Way' is sometimes shaggy and inelegant, and flirts with sentimentality the whole way through, I was finally overcome by its dignity and sincerity, and by the rough, rude, gorgeous magic of its journey." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 10/06/11
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: GOOD "...the type of chicken-soup project that inspires once-a-year ticketbuyers to leave their homes and seek out a good movie -- the sort without sex, drugs or swearing." (Read the full review...) 933 words, 09/11/10 Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "...an earnest film, its heart always in the right place, but it's severely under dramatized.... comes off more as an amiable travelogue than a fully realized feature." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 10/14/10 Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...gentle drama offers an intriguing look at the contemporary version of an ancient ritual.... a well-meaning, if too neat and orderly, portrait of modern-day peregrinos seizing the day." (Read the full review...) 572 words, 10/07/11 Michael T. Dennis, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (cg) "...a more candid movie than 'Bobby' with some of the same positives: a strong cast, an inherently interesting premise, and a lesson to be learned." (Read the full review...) 809 words, 10/10/11 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...not an 'inspirational film' in the usual, syrupy sense; none of these people are overtly finding God on this trek. The beauty of the movie, in fact, is that Mr. Estevez does not make explicit what any of them find, beyond friendship." (Read the full review...) 276 words, 10/07/11
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