In Transit
Submarine Deluxe | Release Date: June 23, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
88
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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100
Time OutDavid EhrlichJun 23, 2017
Alternately funny, touching, tough and hopeful, In Transit never tells you how to feel, but it sure makes it easy to feel it. Read full review
100
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 21, 2017
The film is gently thrilling, often revealing, alive with talk and scenic beauty and well-observed vignettes. Read full review
91
The Film StageJohn FinkJun 21, 2017
Delightful at times and always insightful, In Transit contains a range of emotions and characters rarely seen, even in the best of narrative cinema. Read full review
90
VarietyRonnie ScheibJun 22, 2017
Sampling snippets and snatches of lives and conversations, Maysles and his fellow filmmakers undertake a folk odyssey through northern landscapes that proves a fitting farewell to an American ethnographer. Read full review
90
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJun 22, 2017
Here’s a summer movie that is about — and offers — escape. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJun 23, 2017
The movie is a throwback to an earlier era of documentaries, when filmmakers did not feel obligated by commercial pressure to give their film the shape of a thriller, a sports film, a mystery or anything else, but instead simply brought their cameras into people's lives. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJun 21, 2017
The film's thematic organization suggests the cinematic equivalent of a short-story collection, with haunting tangents and stray notes of poetry. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJun 22, 2017
In Transit is a pure dose of the humanism that helped establish Albert Maysles as one of nonfiction film's key voices. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 30, 2017
Mostly people talk. Lovely to look at, In Transit is even better to listen to. The documentary tells us straightaway that what we hear matters just as much as what we see. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJun 21, 2017
For better and worse, Maysles and his team don’t impose any sort of grand philosophical thesis on these random encounters. The notion of wanting to pick up stakes and restart your life in a new location recurs throughout, but the film (which runs a brisk 76 minutes) is mostly content just to sample the populace, trusting in humanity itself to hold the viewer’s interest. Read full review
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