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Leave No Trace
Positive Reviews
188
Negative reviews
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3.0
But Leave No Trace has none of the easy fish out of water humor or pat sitcom resolution of Captain Fantastic.It treats its superficially similar prem ..
Av Club
2.0
But it turns out that the follow up, Leave No Trace, was worth the wait.
EW
5.0
An immensely moving portrait of a father and daughter who love each other, and who cant bear to be apart.
Rogerebert
5.0
Its a delicate story of two people on the fringe of society that never once feels manipulative, and lands with an emotional wallop.
Rogerebert
4.0
Well acted and well written, calmly presented, and moving, this drama has a ring of truth, despite its extraordinary story.
Common Sense Media
3.0
The big machine may be broken, but its individual parts still work just fine on their own.
Indie Wire
4.5
A man as humble and inscrutably compassionate as the movie around him, Will (Ben Foster) doesnt like to say very much or make himself vulnerable, not ..
Indie Wire
1.5
Apart from debuting to receptive audiences at Sundance, this low key character study will likely leave little to no trace on the cultural conversation ..
Variety
4.0
They may live on the margins but theyre the beating heart of this realist drama about backwoods America.
Time Out
4.4
In Leave No Trace, director Debra Granik continues to refine a style of tranquil intensity.The films images have a rapt and pared down power, with emp ..
4.4
Whatever its underlying message may be, the film works only to the degree that its central relationship does.
5.0
Its a film that never overwhelms but it lingers, leaving its mark on the viewer.
Screen Daily
5.0
Because of its muted tone and narrative similarities to other off the grid stories, Leave No Trace isnt always riveting, content to tell its slim stor ..
Screen Daily
3.0
This is a movie driven by filmmaking, and Graniks skill behind the camera drives a lot of the narrative forward.
Collider
4.5
It can meander in places and it may be a bit too enigmatic for its own good, but for the most part Leave No Trace is an effective and emotionally affe ..
Collider
4.5
Dale Dickey, unforgettable as the cruel but judicious Merab in Winters Bone, plays a considerably softer matriarch in Leave No Trace.
Vulture
4.0
That compassion fills every frame of Leave No Trace, Graniks tough minded, touching new drama.
The Hollywood Reporter
4.0
This film raises more questions than it answers, which can prove a turnoff to some viewers, but others will soak in its ambiguities long after the clo ..
5.0
Neither actor begs for your heart, but each like this movie takes it.
The New York Times
4.2
Leave No Trace asserts, with exquisite humanity and a long bittersweet sigh, that the best the broken can do is disappear before they break anyone els ..
Paste Magazine
4.0
Subtle but assured to the end, Graniks film is all undertow, but it irresistibly grabs you.
Telegraph
3.5
Not initially in any kind of hurry, Leave No Trace spends enough time with these two, as compatible as they are self sufficient, to see that they are ..
5.0
What happened to him while at war never is spelled out, but it does not need to be.This films urgency comes from its economy.
San Francisco Chronicle
4.5
That the film is sometimes too quiet and even rather idealistic in how it depicts the people who populate the society they seek to escape from can be ..
The Young Folks
4.0
Its not a portrait of a man railing against a consumerist society; instead its a man scrabbling for psychological self preservation.
3.8
The movie is based on the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock, itself drawn from a news accounts in the Portland Oregonian of an Oregon man found livin ..
Philly
5.0
But old habits die hard, and Will is just not comfortable staying put.
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
Beneath the apparently placid exterior, however, much is occurring in Debra Graniks long gestating follow up to Winters Bone, the picture that launche ..
One Guys Opinion
5.0
It might not have the genre elements that helped make Winters Bone something of a breakout, but Leave No Trace rivets and terrifies in its own way.
Village Voice
4.2
Her quiet but passionate performance was nothing short of brilliant.
Sover
4.4
Occasionally uplifting and sometimes heartbreaking, it is nothing less than sublime.
ReelViews
4.4
They have a kitchen and plenty of food, and theyre warm, but something is missing.
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
Leave No Trace offers a stark commentary on homelessness and the terrible human cost of Americas wars.
Chicago Reader
3.8
The film may see the rightness in every character here, but in the end, that simply might be because theres no right answer to this dilemma.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
The result is a father daughter story and a study about a young woman growing up in an unconventional world.
2.0
There is true father daughter chemistry between them, but there is more.
4.5
is a massive find. There is such wisdom in her presence...You can feel her seeing everything and taking it all in. Theres such a naturalism to the way ..
You Tube
3.0
And into this combustible no mans land, what do the screenwriter Taylor Sheridan and the director Stefano Sollima add by
The Times
3.0
Foster and McKenzie are admirably restrained, acting mostly without dialogue, but with
The Times
1.5
As it stands, I admire Leave No Trace for its minimalist approach, lead performances and overall tone, but didnt love it like many other reviewers.
Screen It
4.4
Thats what gives her hypnotic and haunting tale of letting go its quiet power and amazing grace.
Rolling Stone
4.0
Its fascinating, honest and thoroughly gripping, expertly shot and edited to bring out the natural performances.
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
If Shirley Jacksons simple parable, The Lottery, couldnt inspire self reflection in an arguably simpler time, one has to wonder what messages today su ..
Pop Matters
4.5
Would a rougher edged unknown have been too much of a commercial gamble
The Wrap
3.0
The movie never goes melodramatic on us, and even though this produces a certain sameness in the way the story plays out, its far preferable to the ho ..
Cs Monitor
5.0
It is not the severing of a bond but, rather, a moment of individuation.
Film Journal
4.4
The more you find out, the more Harts film settles into a kind of ponderous groove that eventually works its way into a solid story arc but struggles ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
Leave No Trace is a beautiful film, heartbreaking in the self awareness both existing and burgeoning of its characters.
Az Central
4.0
Folklore has conditioned us to see forests as places of many dangers, and not just of the fanged and furry kind.
Smh
4.0
As a coming of age tale it is sparse, bittersweet and desperately powerful change is pulling these two interwoven lives apart, made explicit by Granik ..
Smh
4.4
Granik co wrote Leave No Trace with her Winters Bone screenwriter Anne Rosellini.
Toronto Star
4.0
Alive to the majesty of the wilderness and the sanctuary it offers a tortured soul, Leave No Trace is a rich and refreshingly apolitical portrait of r ..
Flim List
4.5
Leave No Trace: Conclusion Eight years after Winters Bone, and Leave No Trace has proven to be more than worth the wait.
Film Inquiry
5.0
One of the films most affecting lines is when Tom tells her father: The same thing thats wrong with you isnt whats wrong with me..This is a film that ..
4.5
Susan Grangers review of Leave No Trace (Bleecker Street) For years, PTSD afflicted veteran Will (Ben Foster) and his 13 year old daughter Tom (Thomas ..
Susang Ranger
4.5
Every look and gesture serves as a shorthand that speaks volumes.They are a marvel to watch and easily draw viewers into their world.
Flim Threet
5.0
And the forest is not their chosen spot for an adventure holiday.
New Yorker
5.0
The tension between them is both wrenching and beautiful, and thats key to the movies power.Theres no such thing as perfect love in families; often it ..
Time
2.0
It is a compelling metaphor for all father daughter relationships.
Boston Herald
2.0
Unlike director and co writer Debra Graniks noir flavored debut Winters Bone, Leave No Trace eschews oversized beats at every turn.
The Film Stage
4.4
In the process, the movie shines a gentle but insistent light on Americas underclass and walking wounded, the people in the cracks just getting by.
Boston Globe
3.0
Theres not a wasted word between them and they both do an incredible job conveying thoughts and feelings wordlessly, to the point where you wish they ..
Uproxx
5.0
The script dodges many of the cliches that viewers might expect from such a story.
The Atlantic
4.5
Granik and her Winters Bone writing partner Anne Rosselini have once again burrowed into the lives of the truly forgotten people of the United States, ..
Birth Movies Death
5.0
Is there more to life than celebrities and/or the search for the Next Big Thing.Debra Graniks follow up to Winters Bone (the Oscar nominated thriller ..
Standard
4.5
For what it is, the pace is outstanding.The film is bolstered by beautiful cinematography (Michael McDonough) of the forest locations, but what really ..
Tony Medley
5.0
Its a fitting companion to Winters Bone, and another deeply moving piece of filmmaking from Debra Granik.
Pajiba
4.5
Theres pleasure to be taken in seeing a world realised so convincingly, even as the story of a growing disconnection is playing out before our eyes.Gr ..
Pajiba
4.4
Its meditative, relatively simple stuff, events progressing with a thoughtful grace and a level of sympathetic understanding thats remarkable.
Movie Freak
3.0
It covers difficult ground, but to say it leaves no trace would be a lie.
Detroit News
4.5
Thats Graniks subject, and Leave No Trace explores it simply but unforgettably.
Vox
2.0
What is so beautiful and surprising about Graniks film is its good natured spirit.
The Play List
4.5
The stripped down script and Graniks quiet, unfussy camera and editing style mean that the film relies heavily on its actors to capture the audiences ..
Film Ink
4.0
Folklore has conditioned us to see forests as places of many dangers, and not just of the fanged and furry kind.
The Age
5.0
You leave with your heart aching but not quite broken, dismayed but not despairing.
Maki At The Movies
5.0
Granik doesnt linger on the natural beauty of the surroundings.There is no sentimental mysticism here.
Cine Vue
4.0
If Leave No Trace doesnt quite get the pulse racing like that film, it certainly gets the tears welling in a finale thats little short of devastating.
Games Radar
4.0
Their unshowy performances elevate this Leave No Trace to greatness.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
5.0
Describing Leave No Trace as a tearjerker barely scratches the surface.
Lw Lies
4.0
Graniks approach is often elusive to the point of ostracising viewers but the films stunning cinematography and Foster and McKenzies muscular performa ..
Nz Herald
5.0
The success of Winters Bone will surely have all eyes turned to Leave No Trace and the film delivers on expectations while at the same time defying th ..
Digital Spy
4.4
In short order, theyre assigned a home thats more in keeping with the demands of society.
Stl Today
5.0
The movie tells us all this without explicitly putting any of it into dialogue; Leave No Traces best moments are when Granik lets McKenzies expressive ..
The Stranger
4.5
Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie are sublimely cast, creating nuanced and indelible characters that will leave you in suspense about how they can come ..
The Stranger
4.5
This is a quietly enthralling film that never over plays its hand, resorts to histrionics and contrived stand offs or forgets to recognise the undenia ..
Stuff
4.5
This insistent kindness is one of the remarkable things about Leave No Trace.The bureaucracy may be broken and inefficient, but it isnt faceless and c ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.4
Despite its Edenic opening scenes, Leave No Trace is not a pollyannaish ode to life in the great outdoors.
Larsen On Film
4.5
That yearning is central to Leave No Traces spirit.The films heartbreaking, inevitable conclusion is bitterly sad, yes.
Vanity Fair
4.0
The jeopardy remains muted and subterranean until it sprouts at the very end.
The Arts Desk
5.0
They catch you up in a suspenseful wilderness tale that opens out to an urgent drama of conflict, beauty and growth.
Wsj
4.0
Granik has a fine eye for casting, with both Vera Farmiga and Jennifer Lawrence benefiting from the filmmakers Midas touch.
Matts Movie Reviews
4.5
There is a great and deep love between the two.Their only purpose in life seems to be to stay together.
The Filmy Ap
2.0
Its a mind blowing performance so full of nuance and skill that it never feels like acting.
Patriot Ledger
4.5
It is not an easy thing to place us into the lives of people weve never had real life contact with, but this is the stuff that fuels Graniks creativit ..
Film
5.0
Refreshingly, though, Granik, along with co screenwriter Anne Rosellini, doesnt demonize the do gooders.
5.0
Leave No Trace is further evidence Granik is one of the most talented directors around and Ben Foster ranks among the finest and most intense actors w ..
Chicago Sun Times
3.0
The woodsy thriller not only earned four Oscar nominations but saw the arrival of Jennifer Lawrence to the national scene.
Punch Drunk Critics
3.5
Yet, beneath the slight narrative, deliberate pace, and long stretches of quiet, Granik and her outstanding cast are busy flushing Leave No Trace with ..
Straight
5.0
If anything, it does a heart good to see a movie about decent people.
Sandiego Reader
3.5
Living off the grid is a dream for some people, and it has been the subject of several Sundance movies.For Winters Bone director Debra Graniks return ..
We Live Entertainment
2.0
Leave No Trace is one of those rare PG rated movies made for adults.
Shockya
4.5
Granik has drawn yet another deeply affecting portrait of families who live on the margins sometimes by choice, often because of circumstance. Her ima ..
Straits Times
4.0
Leave No Trace understandably won over film enthusiasts at Sundance and then Cannes, and now hopefully it will reach the wider audience it so richly d ..
Dead Line
4.0
A tremendously affecting film that never resorts to cheap manipulation.
One Room With A View
4.5
Debra Graniks third narrative feature, Leave No Trace, is a emotionally powerful film with a breakout performance from actress .
Solzy At The Movies
4.0
Thats thanks in no small part to the performance McKenzie, who appears in nearly every frame of the film and who demonstrates a firm understanding of ..
No La
3.5
Even if its hamstrung from being its best self, the version of Leave No Trace that exists is a hell of a thing, and much like Winters Bone , it serves ..
Alternate Ending
4.4
The film presents an intriguing setup fraught with danger, pitfalls and moral ambiguity, but its the performances that propel everything else.
Seattle Times
4.4
Brutal and beautiful, melancholy and joyous, Supa Modo is simultaneously crushing and uplifting.
Seattle Times
3.0
Through lean, economic and patient storytelling, the film builds into a quiet and intimate intensity, buoyed by two of the most mutually attuned perfo ..
Guide Live
4.5
Debra Granik, director and co writer of Winters Bone, is back with another slightly more low key, but still riveting story of the other America.
Film Journal International ..
3.8
If Leave No Trace isnt quite as formidable as Debra Graniks Winters Bone, its still a potent drama marked by a superlative turn from teenage actress T ..
Clclt
3.0
However, LEAVE NO TRACE inherently lacks the connective tissue to allow these profound ideas to come to the surface.
Fresh Fiction
4.0
How many sublimely indelible moments of cinema might otherwise never have happened.Were talking a practically BC/AD level chronological divide.
Seven Day Svt
3.5
If you love bunnies, Leave No Trace is for you.There is little physical conflict in Leave No Trace.
Tony Mack
5.0
Indeed, while Leave No Trace is visually sumptuous with its lush wilderness set visuals, its downright sublime when its simply watching its two leads ..
Concrete Play Ground
3.5
Its a relief when so many movies confuse drama with emotions pitched high and wide.
National Post
4.0
Its a rewarding experience, nonetheless: a story of deep emotional poignancy, with a grim political relevance.
Bfi
3.0
Toms life is shaped by Wills traumas and limitations, and we dont need to know her age to get that this cant go on forever.To do something this delica ..
Original Cin
5.0
The way Granik delivers an impactful punch by the final 20 minutes is in the same vein Pixar delivers their films.
Rendy Reviews
5.0
The writer director Debra Granik stays with dad and daughter relationships for her new film, Leave No Trace.Based on Peter Rocks novel My Abandonment, ..
New States Man
3.0
A thoughtful meditation on parents and children, on damage and courage, on communities we create, and on what we mean by home.
Movie Mom
4.3
An arguably more restrained and refined narrative than her excellent Winters Bone, director Debra Graniks Leave No Trace is intimate story telling at ..
Daily Film Fix
4.4
Their journey from here may not be all that surprising, but its a testament to the actors and director that it remains riveting throughout.
Ap News
3.8
If Leave No Trace isnt quite as formidable as Graniks previous feature, its still a potent drama marked by a superlative turn from teenage actress Tho ..
Film Frenzy
4.4
Still, the filmmaker has created a heartbreaking, suspenseful, uplifting film containing one of the most moving parent child breaking away stories in ..
Sf Examiner
4.5
One of 2018s very best films, Leave No Trace leaves your heart cracked but not broken, and somehow still fills with warmth and tenderness that piece i ..
Mid West Film Journal
5.0
While Leave No Trace does not specifically take place in the present, it has added resonance for this particular cultural moment.
Washington City Paper
5.0
Here, youre never certain where the narrative is going.Youre only certain that you wish to go with it.
Spectator
4.5
Tom and Wills relationship, acted beautifully by McKenzie and Foster, is a unique and profound one.
Battleship Pretension
3.8
How the film moves into the final chapter is driven more through Toms POV than Wills.
Cambridge Day
1.5
Toms self awakening creates a wedge in their relationship, and when the inevitable happens, we are neither surprised nor shocked. But more importantly ..
Kaplan Vs Kaplan
4.5
What you remember about his performances are the characters meanness and their ornery unwillingness to seek redemption.
Metro Active
4.5
She doesnt need loud, kitschy moments or heart breaking proclamations, enhanced by dramatic music.
Firstpost
3.5
The title Leave No Trace itself implies removing ones self from a fractured past.
Impulse Gamer
3.0
Still, focusing on plot alone would be a disservice to a film whose interests lie elsewhere.
Willamette Week
5.0
This film affected me on a deeply emotional level, and its one of the very best of the year.
Screen Zealots
5.0
I suspect we who are even occasional backpackers and campers grasp the exhilarating appeal of escape from our often oppressive social environment.
Kdhx
1.5
Ultimately Winters Bone and Leave No Trace could not be tonally more different, revealing Granik to be a virtuoso filmmaker of a diverse, if too brief ..
L.A. Biz
5.0
Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie astonish us in this emotion train which displays a primitive conflict that nowadays must not be uncommon.
5.0
That parting is the crowning glory of Graniks dramatic craft here.
Patrick Nabarro
5.0
I wish more filmmakers would adopt their intimate but unshowy approach to storytelling.
Leonard Mal
4.4
But Graniks other strength is in finding new talent Down to the Bone was the first starring role for Vera Farmiga, and Winters Bone gave the world its ..
Movie Cricket
5.0
The first thing that strikes you in Leave No Trace is the density of the Pacific Northwest forestall that enveloping greenness.People live in these wo ..
Seattle Weekly
2.0
Leave No Trace immerses us in rugged and rain saturated terrain, where it is easy to get lost and even easier to get into trouble.
Looking Closer
5.0
Should you go.Its achingly spare but telling in all the right ways. ****
Twin Cities
4.0
A short walk reveals a work party carving out a trail for hikers.
Herald Scotland
5.0
Leave No Trace lacks the ferocity that drove Graniks earlier features, as well as a ready hook for audiences; but it offers deeper sorrow and greater ..
The Nation
4.0
strikes a keen balance of examining the characters like an anthropologist would study another culture, but she never becomes too detached.
Film Monthly
2.0
Directed and co written by Oscar nominee Debra Granik, who formally introduced audiences to actress Jennifer Lawrence in the deeply moving 2010 drama ..
Sa Current
5.0
Leave No Traces resolution will surprise you, but once you see it, you wont be able to think of a more fitting ending to this harrowing yet delicate d ..
Bust
5.0
Leave No Trace, in the greatest of ironies, leaves the greatest of traces upon us.
812 Film Reviews
3.0
A treatise on the bonds that tie and emotional scars too ugly to bear, Leave No Trace is a graceful and absorbing drama about the profundity of family ..
Silver Screen Riot
4.0
The chemistry between Foster and McKenzie is brutal and together they have been the fundamental key so that Leave No Trace is one of those small films ..
El antepenúltimo mohicano ..
5.0
Debra Graniks haunting drama makes other living off the grid films feel like pretenders.
The Movie Minute
5.0
The authentic performances drive this beautiful story filled with hope and heartbreak.
Victoria Advocate
3.5
But while the movies steady pacing and first rate acting keep us interested through a running time of close to two hours, it would have been nice to g ..
Daily Public
2.0
BY BROOKE CORSO Leave No Trace, Debra Graniks incredible film from a screenplay adapted with Anne Rosellini, features a father and daughter so in sync ..
The Monitor
4.0
The result is a film that will leave you feeling more numb than alive, and offer more questions than any sense of closure.
Ex Press
5.0
This feels like a real parent child relationship in all of its depth and complexity, which makes us feel how much is at risk.While I fervently wish Gr ..
Madison
4.5
The storys suspense, driven by dangerous characters living in a small rural community, made it compelling.
Arts Fuse
2.0
While some audiences may wish for more rollercoaster thrills, its to Granik and her collaborators immense credit that the film stays on track and neve ..
High Def Digest
2.0
This homespun sensibility is never overplayed, but sees an essential goodness in blue collar middle America that is notable for its nuance.
Mubi
4.0
What struck me right away about Debra Graniks latest achievement is its verdant greenness.
The Lonely Film Critic
4.8
A quiet movie filled with heart and hope. Will Debra Granik make us wait another eight years for her next narrative film I certainly hope not.
Womens Voices For Change
5.0
The quiet pace and tender tone represent a measured style of American cinema that feels alien in the age of the comic book blockbuster.
Sd City Beat
5.0
Hers is a name you will hear a lot of from now on.Theres not one second of humour in, but it isnt depressing.
The Coast
4.5
Setting Leave No Trace in the wilderness allows Granik to portray an extremely enmeshed yet, under the circumstances, healthy father daughter relation ..
Seventh Row
4.5
Leave No Trace works off its restraint, hitting you hardest during its most quiet moments.
KSDK
5.0
Movie review: Winters Bone director Debra Granik returns with engrossing drama Leave No Trace, playing this weekend at OKC Museum of Art by..
News Ok
5.0
Still, whatever the occasional limitations of narrative, Leave No Trace ultimately engages with both its showcase of two fine actors at the peak of th ..
Hammer To Nail
4.0
She doesnt go to school and is hungry, for most of the time, since gas and food have to be spared.
Always Good Movies
4.0
Its based on a true story and Peter Rocks My Abandonment and director Debra Granik (Winters Bone) has created a film rooted in realistic details of wi ..
Dogandwolf
3.8
The mood is outwardly more calm and reflective in Graniks new film Leave No Trace.
Good Times
4.5
This is a very enjoyable movie... All over the place, but I love these kind of subjects.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los A ..
4.5
At bottom, Leave No Trace is about human bonds, and specifically the bond of parents and children.
Eugene Weekly
1.0
Instead of the dramatic highs and lows, it proceeds in a stately, evenly paced manner that smacks of authentic life.
Spokane7
1.0
There is a feel good quality to the film punctuated by good music and an ending that is reminiscent of a 1950s film.
Ncr Online
4.0
Thomasin McKenzies performance blew my mind. Ben Foster says more with a look than most can with pages of dialogue. Terrific telling of hopelessness, ..
Kxl
4.0
Leave No Trace taps into the gut wrenching possibilities of the kindness of humanity; it is delicately compelling and intricately detailed.
Flavourmag
4.5
Best time to watch: This is a good movie to watch if youre in an introspective mood and feel like wallowing in your nihilism.
4.0
To hide out in a national park takes the grace, stealth and skill of a wild animal. Will and his 13 year old daughter have been doing just that in Por ..
4.0
Until recently, John M. Urbancich, former and first Executive Editor of CriticsChoiceMovies , reviewed films and wrote related features and celebrity ..
Jmuvies Blog Spot
5.0
Every single person in Leave No Trace is seen and depicted as just that: a person, a human being, a significant Other.
3.0
Leave No Trace is an unhurried and naturalistic film, an attitude that is wholly expected given the material, but nonetheless executed with discernmen ..
4.5
What I most appreciate about Graniks approach is how she eschews exposition and trusts her leads in this case, a terrific Ben Foster in a rare contemp ..
Awfj
1.5
In essence, Leave No Trace, reinforces why independent filmmaking continues to capture what mainstream films often cannot human nature exposed to the ..
5.0
Its a dark, often gruesome film that doesnt flinch in its realistic portrayal.
Nuvo
3.5
Granik and Rossellini have taken these fact inspired elements and turned them into a gritty yet tender tale of trust tested and replenished, of seemin ..
Miamiartzine
5.0
Granik and Rosellini have a knack of letting their characters write their own story through actions so nobody can pretend to find a single false note ..
Buffalovibe
4.0
I dont think streaming should stomp on exhibition, I dont think exhibitors should be bullied.
FlixChatter Film Blog
4.5
LEAVE NO TRACE should be commended for managing to balance the personal story of its characters with weighty and topical themes.
4.5
Leave No Trace is wonder to behold, a hard watch made even harder by the fact that it really happened. It is a truly American story of love, survival ..
4.5
Leave No Trace finds its tension in the growing gap between father and daughter as Toms worldview widens while Wills closes in.
Vaguev Is Ages
4.5
This is director Debra Graniks first fiction feature since the astounding 2010 movie Winters Bone, and its been worth the wait.
KMUW - Wichita Public Radi ..
5.0
Its pacing is slow but measured, like a long hike through a rocky wooded path.
Riot Material
5.0
By ultimately sidelining ecological questions, Leave No Trace may have secured broad appeal; but in doing so, the film misses the mark ethically and p ..
Another Gaze
4.5
With genuine performances and artistically skilled direction and cinematography, we are brought into their world, experiencing their every thought and ..
Ff2 Media
3.0
I wasnt as wildly crazy for Leave No Trace as many other critics are.But I recommend it as much for what it doesnt do as for what it does.
Arts At L
2.0
Forget the clueless suburban wasteland littered with stale jokes about the latest fashion and lost virginity.
Dayton City Paper
4.5
This film bleeds intimacy and emotional drive.Its not interested in artificially manipulating the audiences feelings for narrative convenience, or for ..
Sassymamainla
5.0
My favorite movie of the summer is the quiet masterpiece Leave No Trace, directed by Debra Granik.
Christian Century
4.0
Comedy, social satire, dystopian nightmare: rapper, producer, political activist Boots Rileys debut film SORRY TO BOTHER YOU has a lot on its mind.And ..
Film Spotting
5.0
Understated sound design from a helicopter drone to the hum of bees subtly amplifies the films themes of trauma and trust, independence and belonging.
Movie Talk
5.0
This feels like a real parent child relationship in all of its depth and complexity, which makes us feel how much is at risk.While I fervently wish Gr ..
Ancho Rage Press
3.8
Trace is Graniks first narrative feature since Winters Bone, and its a much calmer, more sedate movie, but that doesnt mean there isnt just as much at ..
In Lander
4.5
Thomasin Mckenzie captures this character with a confidence thats perfectly executed.
Their Own League
4.5
He needs to keep moving, and thats where the excruciating tension comes in.
Isthmus
3.5
This isnt the first time weve seen Foster portray someone with deep seated troubles, but unlike the more diabolical and disturbing characters hes embo ..
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