The Way Back Reviews

Movie Reviews

• The Way Back tells a compelling story, regardless of whether it's based on truth or a fabrication

  Review rate : B by Nathan Rabin [AV Club ]

• neither a thrilling sandstorm nor belated personal revelations

  by Andrew Schenker [Slant Magazine ]

• It's awash in vast, unforgiving terrain

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• it might be identified as a "small" film

  by Mark Olsen [LA Times ]

• impressive but not especially immersive true story

  by Peter Debruge [Variety ]

• grueling, inspiring, astonishing to look at

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• follows a familiar narrative path, with mixed results

  Review rate : B by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• all these characters are little more than symbols

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• "The Way Back" works well enough

  by Robert W. Butler [Kansas City Star ]

Reader's Reviews

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