A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: September 19, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
27
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 19, 2025
Pairing up Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell for a big screen fantasy romance doesn’t pay off in “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” a film that has one or two big moments on its road-trip-romantic “journey,” a little digitally augmented “beauty” along the way, but little that measures up to anybody’s idea of “bold.” Read full review
38
Slant MagazineAnzhe ZhangSep 17, 2025
The film cloyingly asks us to embrace the sincerity of its impersonal romance. Read full review
33
IndieWireRyan LattanzioSep 16, 2025
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is miscalculated as a romance and a fantasy, and while I’m loath to blame a craftsman as intelligent as Kogonada entirely for the outcome, he did, after all, agree to direct this lousy script. A big, bold, beautiful bore indeed. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalKyle SmithSep 19, 2025
It ought to be a treat to see such charismatic talents falling in love, but the only overwhelming and unstoppable force in the movie is its love for cutesy and cloying gimmicks. It’s a cinematic crime to waste these two stars: I charge “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” with unconscionably aggravated whimsy in the third degree. Read full review
30
Rolling StoneDavid FearSep 18, 2025
There are many reasons that 1999 is considered a banner year for American cinema. This attempt to revisit the type of fanciful, footloose and fancy-twee storytelling that helped characterize that cultural moment is a big swing, and an even bigger miss. Read full review
30
The New YorkerRichard BrodySep 18, 2025
The result is a movie thinned out almost to the point of total insubstantiality—as close to a non-experience as I’ve had at the movies in a while. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBrandon YuSep 18, 2025
Instead of an auteur upgrading his sensibilities with a studio paycheck, “Beautiful Journey” mostly reads as a for-hire job doomed with jumbled writing. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterRichard LawsonSep 16, 2025
For all I know, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey actually takes place on the Holodeck of the Starship Enterprise, so phony is everything contained within it. Read full review
25
The Film VerdictAlonso DuraldeSep 16, 2025
Spending its entire running time between quotation marks, this tedious exercise represents one of the most egregious wastes of talent in recent memory, from a talented cast (led by Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell) to legendary composer Joe Hisaishi to director Kogonada, whose previous films After Yang and Columbus conveyed emotional truths that exist beyond the understanding of this cutesy waste of energy. Read full review
0
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiSep 18, 2025
In the pantheon of films about magical cars, this one is not big, bold or beautiful. Read full review
More From This Movie

43 Critic Reviews

tbd User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 77 Project Hail Mary
2 75 Send Help
3 73 Hoppers
4 72 The Sheep Detectives
5 68 Crime 101
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL