Gasoline Rainbow
MUBI | Release Date: May 10, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
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Generally favorable reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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18
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RogerEbert.comPeyton RobinsonMay 10, 2024
Gasoline Rainbow feels like a living, breathing, laughing organism. It’s not a caricature of Gen-Z nor a wishful document of what we may hope or theorize 2020s youth to be, and the Ross brothers’ largely hands-off technique allows this to thrive. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshMay 17, 2024
This wild, vicarious ride through youthful adventure is absolutely worth taking, for your own nostalgia and for the reminder that the kids are indeed alright. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 17, 2024
See it, and see what you make of this new and quite wonderful example of this in-between cinematic tradition — and of Tony, Micah, Nichole, Nathaly and Makai, both real and imagined. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenMay 6, 2024
The film is rich in compositions that seem to cut to the essence of the characters’ yearnings. Read full review
83
Original-CinLiam LaceyMay 30, 2024
In another era, in a more dramatic coming-of-age story, we would expect something life-changing, possibly terrible to happen. But Gasoline Rainbow remains gentle, optimistic and free-flowing. It’s a vision of America that is almost banal in its lack of menace, an alternative kind of docu-fiction that belies the angry drama of the daily news. Read full review
83
IndieWireChristian ZilkoSep 18, 2023
Gasoline Rainbow simultaneously succeeds as a nuanced depiction of a generation’s concerns and an ironic look at what young people have yet to learn. Read full review
83
The Film StageSavina PetkovaSep 18, 2023
Bill and Turner Ross approach the narrative with a deep understanding of vagrancy as soul-searching and the camaraderie it entails. Read full review
80
Little White LiesKatherine McLaughlinMay 29, 2024
It amounts to more than just ‘a heap of broken images’ – it’s a warming depiction of friendship as family. Read full review
80
Rolling StoneDavid FearMay 11, 2024
What instantly elevates Gasoline Rainbow to the canon of teen hangout movies, several notches below American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused but still trespassing its way into the Pantheon’s foyer, is how well the Ross brothers’ methodology captures the free-floating moment between dwindling childhood and dawning adulthood. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreMay 10, 2024
A generous film that’s ragged at the edges but manages bursts of the sublime. Read full review
80
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonMay 9, 2024
There’s an uncommon sweetness to this film, which is less about running away from something and more about discovering the road of life is littered with goodness, if you know where to look. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 18, 2023
The results are often revelatory, offering an unvarnished look at being young, free and unsettled, with the individuals they meet being almost as important as the journey itself. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinSep 18, 2023
Gasoline Rainbow pays homage to all the road movies that ever were but is still its own quirky thing, uniquely of its time. Read full review
75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenMay 24, 2024
The Ross brothers—who handle the cinematography and editing in addition to directing duties—manage some indelible images, even as they stay as inconspicuous as possible. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleMay 11, 2024
On the whole, the Ross brothers’ observational, immersive filmmaking gets close to something bracingly real. Read full review
70
ColliderRoss BonaimeMay 17, 2024
Gasoline Rainbow blurs the line between documentary and narrative filmmaking to create a road trip movie unlike you’ve ever seen before. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerMay 16, 2024
In a drama that depends on its organic structure, the constructed nature is a little too visible under the skin. Read full review
65
Paste MagazineJacob OllerMay 11, 2024
While the youth are still game to rebel, the film’s calculated spontaneity leaves its travelers stranded in search of something real, an ironically contrived quest whose very undertaking undermines its goal Read full review
60
The Irish TimesTara BradyMay 31, 2024
Straddling the current revival of the picaresque in US indie cinema (The Sweet East, Riddle of Fire) and cinéma vérité, this is a pleasing meander, skilfully directed, shot, and edited by the upcoming auteur siblings. Read full review
60
The GuardianRebecca LiuMay 28, 2024
The result is a movie in the tradition of “vibes” film-making, less interested in a propulsive plot than exploring the revealing and delightful moments that arise from spontaneous human interactions. Read full review
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