The Wheel
Quiver Distribution | Release Date: July 22, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
Film ThreatRob RectorSep 18, 2021
Throughout, the film is an idiosyncratic mediation on a pesky emotion that can simultaneously bond us and tear us apart. And with Pink and his exquisite cast behind The Wheel, the audience is in great hands. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJul 22, 2022
The four main players are all excellent, with Amber Midthunder delivering particularly outstanding work that shows she is a young actor capable of great things. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Amil NiaziSep 20, 2021
With compelling performances from leads Amber Midthunder and Taylor Gray, it’s impossible not to be invested in where they end up. Read full review
70
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldJul 21, 2022
The story ends with an ambitiously staged sequence that reaches for another level of feeling, but it’s hard for anything to match the bruising depiction of Albee and Walker’s rough road to that point. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanSep 18, 2021
The Wheel may not, well, reinvent the wheel. But in its expansive empathy, it delivers something that nevertheless feels new and surprising. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 27, 2022
Pink, a veteran TV director who takes a rather self-important “a film by” credit on what feels like a first feature (it’s his fifth), shows almost no intuition for how to block or shoot a scene, inserting songs where silence would have been more effective. His clumsiness leaves the actors looking slightly amateurish, despite the strong, vulnerable performances they deliver. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayJul 22, 2022
For all its formulaic faults, The Wheel is unusually astute about the ways some couples avoid the hard truths about each other because they’re afraid of ripping their whole lives apart. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 18, 2021
While the first half of the film struggles, the second half deftly explores the character dynamics in a tender way that makes it well worth the watch. Read full review
58
The Film StageJared MobarakSep 18, 2021
It’s messy and overly convoluted, but the ends do mostly justify the means. Read full review
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