Highway
| Release Date: February 21, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
VarietyRonnie ScheibFeb 20, 2014
Tracing a journey of self-discovery through six North Indian states without a formal script, Ali’s actors, like his characters, effectively improvise in a meandering present tense, stripped of any viable destination. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comDanny BowesFeb 21, 2014
There's a lot to like in Ali's latest, Highway, which is a gorgeously assembled, ambitious piece of work, although it doesn't coalesce into a holistically successful film. Read full review
40
The New York TimesRachel SaltzFeb 20, 2014
The cinematographer Anil Mehta’s lovely, unfussy images ground the film and show us a good bit of India... Mr. Ali’s story, though, wanders too long and too far, sometimes coming off like a forced mash-up of “It Happened One Night” and “Patty Hearst.” Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungFeb 20, 2014
Ali has a deft hand in creating a fantasy world based on the classical Sita-Ravana model, and gives Bhatt free rein to project herself with unabashed teenage appeal. Read full review
30
Village VoiceZachary WigonFeb 20, 2014
The degree to which Highway candies up Veera's slumming toward freedom feels so fundamentally out of touch with the realities of poverty that it skirts into offensiveness. Read full review
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