Away We Go
Focus Features | Release Date: June 5, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
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Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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19
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11
Negative:
3
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Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
A self-satisfied film about insecure people, a quirky and episodic comic drama that squanders its genuine assets and ends up not as special as it tries to be. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Though it's nice to see Mendes take a looser, not quite so studied approach to his filmmaking, some stops along the way -- like a detour to visit Burt's suddenly single brother (Paul Schneider) -- feel dramatically off-course. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
If we learn anything from Away We Go, it’s that a lack of ambition might not be such a bad thing after all. Read full review
50
New York PostKyle Smith
The strange thing about the movie is its idea that such couples are rare flowers. But you can scarcely take a step in Seattle or San Francisco or Los Feliz without meeting them in hordes. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
One can almost feel the movie Away We Go might have been, if only we could believe that Verona loves Burt - or understand why Burt loves Verona. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
See it for the performances – they are delights from the leads on down to the characters in the episodic vignettes. But the film’s vision of Gen-Y nesting is liable to leave you up a tree. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Travel--finding the self by escaping the self--is central to the novels of Eggers and Vida, but Mendes knows where he's going before he gets there. And so the subject of Away We Go turns out to be not travel but child-rearing, which is at best well-meaning and anguished and at worst downright monstrous. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Does it sound as if I hate this movie? Don't be silly. But don't be fooled. This movie does not like you. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
An exploration of self-absorption that is itself too self-absorbed to be either entertaining or enlightening. Read full review
40
TimeRichard Corliss
A bloated, criminally judgmental borderline-comedy. Read full review
40
SlateDana Stevens
Away We Go is like a disappointing term paper by a promising student. Read full review
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