On the Road

"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)" 

"A beautiful and respectful adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel that intermittently leaves the ground to take flight"
 

"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" 

"Call it a successful failure. Some movies worth seeing are like that (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)" 

"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" 

"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)" 

"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)"