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Into the Wild

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	Our Critics Say... Dennis Harvey, Variety.com, MSN Entertainment Metascore ^® from metacritic.com 73 Generally favorable reviews out of 100 Based on 38 critic reviews

Penn's 'Wild' Tells a Fascinating Tale

By Dennis Harvey, Variety.com

Jon Krakauer's best-seller "Into the Wild" chronicled the real-life, way-off-grid adventures of Christopher McCandless, a middle-class college grad whose quest for "ultimate freedom" ended in 1992 with starvation in the Alaskan wilderness. It seemed natural, if challenging, screen material — and in his fourth and by far best feature turn behind the camera, Sean Penn delivers a compelling, ambitious work that will satisfy most admirers of the book. This early fall prestige entry's wider prospects will depend on careful momentum building from reviews and word of mouth, with repeat young-adult biz likely if it doesn't get pushed off screens too soon. ... More on Variety.com


100 CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert Spellbinding.Read Full Review »
91 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman The beauty of Into the Wild, which Penn has written and directed with magnificent precision and imaginative grace, is that what Christopher is running from is never as important as what he's running TO.Read Full Review »
90 Washington Post: Ann Hornaday Sean Penn sings a powerful and poetic hymn to America with Into the Wild, his sweeping, sensitive and deeply affecting adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling book.Read Full Review »
90 Village Voice: Scott Foundas To these eyes, Into the Wild is an unusually soulful and poetic movie that crystallizes McCandless in all his glittering enigma, and allows us to decide for ourselves whether he was the spiritual son of Thoreau, Tolstoy, and John Muir, or the boy most likely to become Theodore Kaczynski.Read Full Review »
88 ReelViews: James Berardinelli Into the Wild is a beautifully made motion picture and some of the segments (especially those with Hal Holbrook and those that transpire around "the magic bus" in Alaska) are powerful.Read Full Review »
88 ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers Penn, in tandem with the superb cinematographer Eric Gautier (The Motorcycle Diaries), captures the majesty and terror of the wilderness in ways that make you catch your breath.Read Full Review »
88 Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey They are the only misstep in Penn's otherwise sure-footed journey to what he reveals as the heart of lightness.Read Full Review »
88 USA Today: Claudia Puig Captivating and multifaceted.Read Full Review »
80 The New York Times: A.O. Scott Though the film’s structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.Read Full Review »
80 LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan Though Penn's fierce identification with the protagonist is a key source for the film's accomplishments, Into the Wild succeeds on screen because Hirsch ("Alpha Dog," "The Lords of Dogtown") throws himself into the part without reservation, projecting an appealing openness and life force that brings a special poignancy to his fate.Read Full Review »
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