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World Traveler
ThinkFilm Inc.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and some sexuality
Starring
Billy Crudup,
Julianne Moore,
Cleavant Derricks,
David Keith,
James LeGros,
Karen Allen,
Mary McCormack,
and
Liane Balaban
This contemporary road movie tells the story of a restless, thirty-something New Yorker (Crudup) who, one day, simply drives off, leaving his wife, baby and home behind.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Bart Freundlich
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Bart Freundlich
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 21, 2003
Video: January 21, 2003
Theatrical: April 19, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
104 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Canada / USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Although occasionally both overwritten and overly symbolic, tale carries a satisfying emotional charge.
70
Film Threat
Ron Wells
World Traveler did seem completely aimless for the first third. However, once I comprehended where Freundlich was going with this, I began to really enjoy where the film was taking me.
60
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
Crudup takes a riskier path: his architect isn't very nice and is possibly irredeemable. His performance is subtle, complicated, and fresh, and it's a shame the movie doesn't live up to it.
60
Washington Post
Dan Via
Well-made, well-acted but ultimately enervating, this is a respectable effort from Freundlich.
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.
50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A small story, a monodrama with a hero but no antagonists.
50
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
The gorgeous Crudup is talented, but this charming asshole (more asshole than charming) is old hat for him, little more than another of the blank-eyed-loser-on-a-spiritual-quest roles in which he's been trafficking lately.
50
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The Crudup of "Almost Famous" was both hairier and more appealing than the tortured womanizer of World Traveler. Couldn't Cal have just stayed home, grown a mustache, and called his dad on the phone? [22 & 29 April 2002, p. 209]
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Iridescent as each of the actors is, the result is like a handful of beads without the connecting string.
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
As beautiful to look at and as emotionally disconnected as its central character.
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.
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.
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.
42
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Limps shallowly along.
40
New Times (L.A.)
Gregory Weinkauf
Loses significant points for its lazy story and complacent delivery.
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.
40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
A hopelessly stolid and distant evocation of Bob Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces."
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.
40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Freundlich's postmodern road movie contains several sharply observed scenes but doesn't really add up to much.
38
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Crudup is about as effective as anyone could be in the dreary World Traveler, but he can't keep this shallow, pretentious film from wallowing in banality and staggering self-indulgence.
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.
38
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Amidst the ennui, there are some fine performances.
38
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Crudup gives it his best, but his character is so economically drawn, there's hardly anything there -- certainly nothing likable.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Dreary movie.
20
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
It's hard to remember a movie that has asked us to care, without giving us reason to, about a character who is so thoroughly and relentlessly a prick.
20
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Anemic, pretentious.
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