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Positive Reviews
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Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.9
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4.5
Tempting as it might be to dismiss McCandless as a hare brained hippie, hes not so easily reduced, and Penn does well to honor his slippery nature, ev ..
Av Club
3.0
And though Penn has conjured up a beautifully acted, visually bracing film that captures all the romantic energy and freedom of a life spent outside t ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Sean Penns fourth feature as a director is as exhilarating as it is unwieldy, a sprawling hymn to nature, humanity and personal freedom which firmly e ..
Screen Daily
5.0
For those who have read Thoreaus Walden, there comes a time, maybe only lasting a few hours or a day, when the notion of living alone in a tiny cabin ..
Rogerebert
3.1
McCandless, played in the film by Emile Hirsch, hated his father, a NASA scientist who had a child by his first wife after Chris and his sister were b ..
Ny Daily News
4.5
Every once in awhile, a movie will come outta nowhere and blow your socks off.
JoBlo
3.5
Night Comes On director talks about shooting in Philly, and falling in love with the city.Night Comes On director talks about shooting in Philly, and ..
Philly
5.0
Emile Hirsch gives an intense and mesmerizing performance that lights up this drama and keeps it reverberating in our minds long after we have left th ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
Does capture the true spirit of the adventure..Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz This is Sean Penns (The Crossing Guard/The Pledge/The Indian Runner) fourth ..
Sover
1.3
Into the Wild (2007) 1 Star (out of 4) Tweet Gall of the Wild By Jeffrey M. Anderson Based on a book by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild plays into the age ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.5
This film is shot in the actual locations where McCandless traveled and the scenery is spectacular.
Lariat
3.5
But its also at times surprisingly emotional and unguarded, with a central performance that could be one of the years best.
Eric Ds Nider
5.0
The final moments of the movie contain a surprising level of happiness.
News Review
3.0
Tweet Into the Wild Jim Lane By This article was published on 10.04.07 Advertisement Writer director Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauers book about Chris M ..
News Review
4.0
The self reflection is powerfully honest, and the landscapes are genuinely spectacular.
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
The film also makes full use of the spectacular American landscape, with stunning cinematography courtesy of Eric Gautier.Into the Wild is a thoroughl ..
View London
3.5
But what is lacking here is the sheer cruelty of McCandlesss holistic escapade.
Cs Monitor
4.0
A story of youthful narcissism that never neglects the poignant humanity at its core, Into the Wild speaks to the yearnings and frailties in all of us ..
Film Journal
4.0
The short decoding: get some ideals beyond shopping.The film is soaked in old fashioned American values self reliance, modesty, a pioneering spirit.
Smh
4.0
However, none of this changes the fact that Into the Wild is frequently terrific filmmaking.
Mountain X
4.0
Hirschs initially robust explorer is surrounded with a surprising number of stars, considering that this is basically a film about a loner.
Npr
5.0
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Star Tribune
3.5
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Emanuellevy
3.5
Compressed down to a containable level of cinematic storytelling yet in need of more trimming, the over two hour film version presents as certainties ..
Reel Talk Reviews
1.0
You may even persuade yourself its deep.But I doubt if there are many of you out there.
Daily Mail
3.5
Its a Lifetime TV rule that this movie should have risen above: Every questionable moral action must be explained by an equal and opposite childhood t ..
Slate
4.0
With the whole of America as his backdrop, Penn pulls off his most ambitious movie yet. The result is a beautiful and thought provoking road movie.
Empire
4.0
This is nature at its most impressive and you sense that it has the power to kill.
Eye For Film
4.0
But one of the most impressive triumphs of the movie is its gorgeous cinematography.
Common Sense Media
4.0
Whats interesting is that its being made now.If this were the 90s, Id be much more tempted to call it a neo hippy hacky sack movie about a dumb, privi ..
Movies
5.0
This is one of those movies I can imagine deciding is a masterpiece in a months time. And by any measure, Into the Wild is a big leap forward for Penn ..
Sf Gate
3.0
It can sometimes feel like the pit stops are too long and Penn has an annoying tendency to draw attention to the camera, but for every indulgence the ..
Bbc
4.5
After the movie is shot, directors may cut good as well as bad dialogue.
New Yorker
4.0
And we need to leave it carrying some sense of tragic consequence with us.
Time
4.0
It has equal appeal to viewers looking for an old fashioned movie epic and those in search of a smaller, more contemplative art film.
Washington Post
3.8
But if those two films were simply unintelligent, then Moving McAllister is actively anti intelligent.
Mr Brown Movies
4.4
A heartrending slice of Americana both inspiring and foreboding in its view of a world that will exist long after we are all gone.
The Movie Boy
3.5
Lush cinematography captures the sweeping vistas and wildlife of Alaska in all of its aching beauty and perpetual danger.
Bullz-Eye
4.2
Just when you think the film is getting a little lengthy, it pulls you in again, enthralling through its cathartic climax.
Reeling Reviews
3.5
If there is a shard of triumph in Penns adaptation, it is in its depiction of an America we dont see in movies, the antithesis of what movies sell us.
Flickfilosopher
4.0
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Total Film
4.4
Into the Wild is a long motion picture, clocking in at nearly 150 minutes.But the strength and breadth of its material earns it the extended running t ..
ReelViews
4.5
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Calendar Live
4.4
The success of a movie like Into the Wild depends disproportionately on the talents of its star.Luckily Hirsch doesnt disappoint.
Hollywood
4.5
Penns direction is amazingly sharp and intuitive, full of masterful touches that give an epic dimension and scope to the parable.
Seattle Pi
4.4
Each vista is a crucial step in the films journey, a masterful montage designed by screenwriter Penn and editor Jay Cassidy.
Groucho Reviews
3.8
But while the physical journey ended in misery, its the spirit motivating it that lends Penns movie its sustained air of almost infectious metaphysica ..
The Star
5.0
This fact based drama pulls off a fairly tricky feat its touching, thoughtful, sad, funny, sweet and ultimately redemptive and all at once.
Deseret News
4.0
Too much material feels like padding and stretches the story beyond its natural screen form.
Urban Cine File
4.5
Penns 140 minute conveyance of the story is rambling and structurally unsteady but every essential ingredient is there, which we put together with a l ..
Varia Gate
1.9
This might be somebodys idea of a good time, but its certainly not mine.
Three Movie Buffs
3.8
Into the Wild tries to paint McCandless own demise as something of a triumph.
New York Post
2.5
Into The Wild is ultimately a heartfelt and forcefully executed combo meditation and dirge surrounding one young mans desperation to embrace human exi ..
News Blaze
5.0
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News Blaze
3.1
However, Into the Wild is a cinematic release and as such its audiences will be expecting, and dare I say deserve, a powerful climax.
Ross Anthony
4.5
An uplifting and enriching cautionary tale about one mans spiritual adventure on the road and in the wilderness, whose life and death has left and und ..
Matts Movie Reviews
5.0
Even in its harrowing final moments, Wild achieved a spiritually transcendent pinnacle the idea of ending one long, strange trip and plummeting into a ..
The Filmy Ap
3.0
Is Penn merely portraying McCandless as faithfully as possible, or does he truly believe in McCandless goofy ideas about life
ComingSoon
3.5
Hirsch, who carries the film on his increasingly emaciated shoulders, performs heroically, but theres an edge missing.
News Week
3.0
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Entertainment Times Online ..
4.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
5.0
Without diminishing the deep transcendentalist yearnings of its young hero, Into the Wild builds to a climax of profound human connectedness, profound ..
Chron
4.0
While Penns admiration for the story is never less than heartfelt, its hard not to make judgments about McCandless, played with the lustrous hair and ..
Film Guardian
4.0
It exists in horror films and thrillers as the amoral or deceptively sweet looking habitat of supernatural beasts or malevolent hillbillies.
Film Guardian
4.4
The movie gives a sense of the enormity of America, as well as the cathartic power of crossing its varied landscape.
Mercury News
4.0
It may not touch everybody, but those whom it does touch, it will touch deeply.It is a haunting odyssey.
Tony Mack
4.0
Much of the movie is McCandless alone in the wild and that is the most compelling stuff.
Can Mag
5.0
The painful beauty of the film is how Penn embraces every level of meaning and experience simultaneously.
Stream On Demand At Home
4.0
Penns travelogue cum coming of age story is a beautiful, poignant picture.
Movies Ign
3.8
Insodoing Christopher McCandless compressed a lifetimes worth of experience into a very narrow margin of time.
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
4.5
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Cine Rina
4.0
Early in Sean Penns new film, Into the Wild, a pickup truck driving across a frozen landscape drops a young man off at the literal end of the road.
D Cist
3.8
Is Chris teetering on the edge of madness, alone in the wilderness
Seattle Times
2.5
More and more, it seems that films based on a true story rely heavily on the verb based and less on the adjective true when re telling an often tragic ..
James Wegg Review
5.0
This is the case with Penns film, and it is with derision and sincere admiration in equal measure that I consider it a wholly and unexpectedly decent ..
Not Coming
4.5
The story of Chris McCandless, as recounted in Jon Krakauers 1996 book Into the Wild, could be taken as cautionary tale or inspirational tragedy.
Ar Kansas Online
4.1
Brian Dierker brings a refreshing dose of humor to this desperately earnest film as Rainey.
Sea Coast Online
5.0
It is doubtful that even Thoreau would have gone to the extremes taken by McCandless.
Louis Proyect Word Press
3.8
Where Penn shines most is in his level of commitment. To show us where McCandless really was, he shot in at least 30 locations all over the country.
East Bay Times
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