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Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleBetween the defensive driving and offensive behavior, and vice versa, The Road Movie is a gleeful rubbernecker’s large popcorn’s worth of crazy.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSuspenseful and funny, occasionally poignant and often nearly unbelievable, it captures a certain sociological flavor while remaining universally accessible.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe Road Movie is not a narrative film. It doesn’t tell a story, even though there is comedy, tragedy, madness and romance amidst all the crashes and explosions.
- 75The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakWhile I really like how Kalashnikov doesn’t inject himself into the footage with chapter titles, narration, or government officials explaining things, it’s difficult not to wonder if a bit more guidance could have helped The Road Movie from risking reductive criticism as a glorified YouTube playlist.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoKalashnikov is also smart enough to keep The Road Movie down to 67 minutes, which is all he needs to create this particular vision of hell. (And, by the way, he does so without showing bloody or mangled bodies.)
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)John SemleyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)John SemleyThe effect of watching these viral videos as a "movie" feels genuinely singular – suspending the viewer somewhere between reality and documentary, between the dash-mounted long takes of Abbas Kiarostami's "10" and the combustible vehicular carnage of Michael Bay's "The Island," between cinema and something else.
- 70The New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe New York TimesTeo BugbeeThe camera offers no protection; it only provides a witness. Fortunately for audiences, it’s more pleasurable to witness anarchy than it is to experience it.
- 63Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezThe film is a doodle, but in its offhanded way, it effectively attests to the resolute nature of the Russian character.
- 50Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe mayhem is hypnotic, scabrous, scarifying, unpredictable, astonishing, dispiriting, repetitious, clearly both amoral and immoral, and by the end, a little dull. Even over the short running time, you can feel your humanity’s diminishment.
- There’s very little to say about The Road Movie. That’s because there’s very little to The Road Movie.