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On the Road

2012

Walter Salles

Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams ...

5.2

4,382

Drama. Adventure Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation living in the here and now during the late forties. Their search for "it" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S. Based on the legendary 1957 "beat" novel "On The Road", by Jack Kerouac.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Handsome shots and touching sadness don't compensate for the tedious air of self-congratulation in Walter Salles's road movie (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A beautiful and respectful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel that intermittently leaves the ground to take flight"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Salles has lovingly crafted a poetic, sensitive, achingly romantic version of the Kerouac book that captures the evanescence of its characters' existence and the purity of their rebellious hunger for the essence of life"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Call it a successful failure. Some movies worth seeing are like that (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Justin Chang Variety	"Evocatively lensed, skillfully made (...) Walter Salles' picture pulses with youthful energy but feels overly calculated (...), attesting to the difficulty and perhaps futility of trying to reproduce Kerouac's literary lightning onscreen"
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Although Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much of a story it really offers (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A dash of Tarantino might have juiced up Walter Salles' wrongheadedly well-mannered take on Jack Kerouac's (...) landmark. Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel comes to the screen looking good but feeling shallow (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"

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