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Movie Review for Into the Wild
Movie Review for
Into the Wild
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74 Reviews total.
Release date: 9/21/2007
Run length: Unknown.
Categories:
Action/Adventure
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Adaptation
Summary:
Based on a true story of one young man's tragic 'return to nature'. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Tim Brayton
of Antagony & Ecstasy (7/0)
I am overwhelmed by the intensity of theme, and underwhelmed by the sophomoric content thereof, a...
By
Michael Sragow
of Baltimore Sun (7/0)
It used to be a hip putdown to call a film "a religious experience." Into the Wild just about is.
By
Jordan Hiller
of Bangitout.com (7/0)
What is evident by the film's conclusion is that our sincere and honest relationships with fellow...
By
Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (7/0)
...long, indulgent, often moving...
By
Roger Ebert
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/0)
...spellbinding...
By
Michael Phillips
of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
Action is character, and we get to know McCandless, aspects of him at least, on his long, strange...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Frederica Mathewes-Green
of Christianity Today (7/0)
Despite a few gripes, this is a terrific movie. It's a gripping story, played out in visually ast...
By
Jules Brenner
of Cinema Signals (7/0)
Penn's 140 minute conveyance of the story is rambling and structurally unsteady but every essenti...
By
James Rocchi
of Cinematical (7/0)
... As the credits roll at the close of Into the Wild, you don't feel like you've celebrated a li...
By
Kim Voynar
of Cinematical (7/0)
Even as we feel anger at Chris for hurting his family, or frustration at his choices, or fear for...
By
Cole Smithey
of ColeSmithey.com (7/0)
For a story so fraught with potential landmines, Sean Penn, the screenwriter, bridges delicate na...
By
Edward Douglas
of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
Way too long and could have easily been trimmed by a good half hour, but it turns a new corner in...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Harry Chotiner
of culturevulture.net (7/0)
Into the Wild
By
Christopher Tookey
of Daily Mail [UK] (7/0)
Into The Wild gets lost in a self-indulgent wilderness.
By
Alex Markerson
of E! Online (7/0)
It takes an uncompromising vision to do justice to the story of Christopher McCandless.
By
Brian Orndorf
of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
Into the Wild is a literal free spirit of a motion picture, but it also remains a poignant, tragi...
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
It's an intensely physical movie, yet it's never just physical.
By
Eugene Novikov
of Film Blather (7/0)
The reason it's so troubling, even disturbing, is that notwithstanding the protagonist's profound...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Kevin Lally
of Film Journal International (7/0)
A story of youthful narcissism that never neglects the poignant humanity at its core, Into the Wi...
By
Pete Vonder Haar
of Film Threat (7/0)
Into the Wild didn't make me want to eke out a living in an abandoned bus, but it did make me yea...
By
Chris Cabin
of filmcritic.com (7/0)
...(Penn's) direction in Wild is astute and brisk though not always as concise as one would h...
By
Nigel Andrews
of Financial Times (7/0)
A dream movie.
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (7/0)
[T]he extraordinary Emile Hirsch [is] like Leonardo DiCaprio 10 years ago, all coiled intensity a...
By
Sura Wood
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
...an extravagantly ambitious, unfocused film...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Sura Wood
of Hollywood Reporter (7/0)
While the material seems to warrant understated, direct storytelling...Penn opts for epic proport...
By
Todd Gilchrist
of IGN Movies (7/0)
Into the Wild shows you the way, but lets you choose for yourself. And hippie or no, this trip is...
By
Anthony Quinn
of Independent (7/0)
A young man with plenty of advantages renounces the modern world, wounds his family deeply and is...
By
Scott Foundas
of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
Penn’s film burns with native intelligence, never tipping into hagiography, and always doing what...
By
Robert Roten
of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
Movie's strong suits are great acting and great location photography, not its structure or its se...
By
Matt Kelemen
of Las Vegas CityLife (7/0)
Penn, whose deliberate and successful avoidance of sanctimony is the key to the film's success, u...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Pete Hammond
of Maxim (7/0)
A mystic and mesmerizing journey of adventure and self-discovery.
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (7/0)
If Penn weren't such an intimidating figure, studio execs probably would have turned the script b...
By
Gabriel Shanks
of Modern Fabulousity (7/0)
Contrary to the lessons we learned in Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, large bears will not always ea...
By
Michael Dequina
of Mr. Brown's Movies (7/0)
Has a profound cumulative effect by the end--a testament not only to Penn's control and understan...
By
Alonso Duralde
of MSNBC (7/0)
Into the Wild may be the most stirring drama you ever see about failed ambitions. But even if it ...
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (7/0)
...gorgeously photographed...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Eric Kohn
of New York Press (7/0)
Darkly observant, the plot makes great art.
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (7/0)
...the film¿s imperfection, like its grandeur, arises from a passionate, generous impulse that i...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (7/0)
A visually stunning modern-day epic in which the protagonist, unfortunately, remains a blur.
By
Scott Tobias
of Onion AV Club (7/0)
Tempting as it might be to dismiss McCandless as a hare-brained hippie, he's not so easily reduce...
By
John Thomason
of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
[Penn has] clearly found his home, his calling and consequently the best movie of his career in J...
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
Does capture the true spirit of the adventure.
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Jeanne Aufmuth
of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
Sean Penn steps behind the camera to craft one of the most powerful films of the year.
By
Jon Popick
of Planet Sick-Boy (7/0)
As most films directed by actors, the performances here are very strong.
By
Cynthia Fuchs
of PopMatters (7/0)
After the deeply internalized sorrow, longing, and rage examined in Penn's earlier movies, Into t...
By
Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
No wonder the book on which this is based is a best-seller. "Into the Wild" takes a riveting docu...
By
Pam Grady
of Reel.com (7/0)
Hirsch is excellent as the woefully ill-informed and too arrogant for his own good McCandless, bu...
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (7/0)
...a beautifully made motion picture...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Jim Emerson
of RogerEbert.com (7/0)
Penn's empathy with his driven hero is unmistakable and deeply felt.
By
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (7/0)
...beautiful, wrenching film...
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
Penn and cinematographer Eric Gautier capture with lucid beauty the feel of the road and the vast...
By
Gina Carbone
of Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (7/0)
Hal Holbrook will have been robbed if doesn't get nominated for every award available.
By
Sean Axmaker
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
Penn throws you headlong into the romance of his journey and the buzzing thrill of his quest...
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (7/0)
...uncompromising, unsettling, uniquely satisfying...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Moira MacDonald
of Seattle Times (7/0)
Beautifully structured and performed.
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
The self-reflection is powerfully honest, and the landscapes are genuinely spectacular.
By
Dana Stevens
of Slate (7/0)
Penn performs one bit of sleight-of-hand on the book that's borderline unforgivable.
By
Derek Malcolm
of This is London (7/0)
One of the best American films of the year, even if you do feel more impatient with McCandless th...
By
Mark Holcomb
of Time Out New York (5/2)
Penn’s entitled to his reading of McCandless’s story, of course, but envisioning it as a Stations...
By
Brian Tallerico
of UGO (7/0)
Penn hits too many of his thematic nails square on the head, never trusting that his audience is ...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Urban Cinefile Critics
of Urban Cinefile (7/0)
The role of the rebellious adventurer intent on doing things his own way is the kind of role Sean...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (7/0)
Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's fascinating non-fiction best seller upon which the film is bas...
By
Dennis Harvey
of Variety (7/0)
Sean Penn delivers a compelling, ambitious work that will satisfy most admirers of the book.
By
Jeffrey Chen
of Window to the Movies (7/0)
The ultimate destination creates the opportunity for Penn to draw up a summation for his protagon...
By
John Beifuss
of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
The topography of the canyons, rivers, deserts, wheat fields and forests is no more fascinating t...
By
Kevin Courrier
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/4) No reference
Although Into the Wild carries with it a tragic undercurrent, Penn illuminates the graceful aspec...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (3/4) No reference
The only Truth is that the quest to reclaim the best of what we were disillusions us. . . before...
By
Robert W. Butler
of Kansas City Star (3/4) No reference
Sean Penn’s achingly poetic Into the Wild seduces gently, creeping up in incremental steps. Yet i...
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (3/4) No reference
(Sean Penn) focuses on the best aspects of Chris McCandless, played wonderfully by Emile Hirsch.
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (3/4) No reference
Penn's sensitive screenplay and Hirsch's engaging performance show us McCandless's ability to con...
By
Shawn Levy
of Oregonian (3/4) No reference
It's Penn's biggest-hearted film, a hippie epic that buoys even as it wends toward catastrophe.
By
Tom Charity
of Total Film (3/4) No reference
In his fourth and best film to date, Sean Penn has made an eco-road movie that refreshes and invi...
Reviews of Into the Wild
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (6/1) Not Reachable
If Emile Hirsch is short on charisma, he nonetheless whets our wanderlust--though if you're thin...
By
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
of TheMovieChicks.com (6/1) Not Reachable
Days later I was still thinking about this adventure... a sure indication of a well-crafted film.
Movie Distributors
Paramount Vantage Production Companies
Clyde Is Hungry Productions
Linson Films
River Road Entertainment Movie Studios
Paramount Vantage
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