World Traveler Critic Reviews

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 the full review

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 the full review

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 the full review

The film is perhaps best enjoyed as a minor work with some major pluses, notably in the characterizations and in their adroit portrayals.Read the full review

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 the full review

Dreary movie.Read the full review

Neither the screenplay nor the film's visual vocabulary begins to evoke a charged spiritual tension between the protagonist and the world.Read the full review

A hopelessly stolid and distant evocation of Bob Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces."Read the full review

Although occasionally both overwritten and overly symbolic, tale carries a satisfying emotional charge.Read the full review