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Variety | Lisa Nesselson

Although occasionally both overwritten and overly symbolic, tale carries a satisfying emotional charge.

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Washington Post | Dan Via

Well-made, well-acted but ultimately enervating, this is a respectable effort from Freundlich.

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60
Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

The film is perhaps best enjoyed as a minor work with some major pluses, notably in the characterizations and in their adroit portrayals.

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50
Entertainment Weekly | Staff (Not Credited)

Crudup is the best navigator a road movie like World Traveler can have, but even he can't single-handedly transport these goods from nowhere to somewhere.

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50
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

There are moments of sudden truth in the film; Freundlich, who also made "The Myth of Fingerprints" (1997), about an almost heroically depressed family at Thanksgiving, can create and write characters, even if he doesn't always know where to take them.

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50
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

A hopelessly stolid and distant evocation of Bob Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces."

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40
The New York Times | Stephen Holden

Neither the screenplay nor the film's visual vocabulary begins to evoke a charged spiritual tension between the protagonist and the world.

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40
ReelViews | James Berardinelli

A huge disappointment -- the kind of motion picture that makes you actively angry at the filmmaker for subjecting you to it and stealing two hours of your life.

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38
San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

Dreary movie.

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25
Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

Anemic, pretentious.

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20

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