| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...long, indulgent, often moving..." more... |
B |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...spellbinding..." more... |
A |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"Action is character, and we get to know McCandless, aspects of him at least, on his long, strange trip." more... |
B |
E! Online
Alex Markerson |
"It takes an uncompromising vision to do justice to the story of Christopher McCandless." more... |
A |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"It's an intensely physical movie, yet it's never just physical." more... |
A- |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
"...(Penn's) direction in Wild is astute and brisk though not always as concise as one would hope." more... |
B |
Hollywood Reporter
Sura Wood |
"...an extravagantly ambitious, unfocused film..." more... |
B |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
"(Sean Penn) focuses on the best aspects of Chris McCandless, played wonderfully by Emile Hirsch." more... |
B+ |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...gorgeously photographed..." more... |
B |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
"...the film¿s imperfection, like its grandeur, arises from a passionate, generous impulse that is as hard to resist as the call of the open road." more... |
A- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...a beautifully made motion picture..." more... |
A- |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"...beautiful, wrenching film..." more... |
A- |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...uncompromising, unsettling, uniquely satisfying..." more... |
A |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's fascinating non-fiction best seller upon which the film is based is bound to be satisfied by this cinematic retelling, despite its considerable length." more... |
A- |
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