Well-made, well-acted but ultimately enervating, this is a respectable effort from Freundlich.Read Full Review »
50
Boston Globe: Beth Pinsker
The real seduction Crudup pulls off is that he makes it seem possible that the character hasn't actually done all of these awful things.Read Full Review »
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.Read Full Review »
50
Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Iridescent as each of the actors is, the result is like a handful of beads without the connecting string.Read Full Review »
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.Read Full Review »
50
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.Read Full Review »
40
Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
The movie's single brilliant invention -- Julianne Moore as a used, contentious, profoundly odd floozy on her own magical mystery tour.Read Full Review »
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.Read Full Review »
38
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.Read Full Review »
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