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2.5
Curran resists lingering, instead moving abruptly from one incident to another; the result is a journey through the geographic and psychological inter ..
Av Club
1.5
The sun baked desert, the parched lips and vulnerability of the flesh, the spectacular horizons, and the ever watchable camels are all irresistibly ph ..
Austin Chronicle
2.5
To my mind, movies about watching nomads walk rank alongside movies about writers writing: The action is dull and endlessly repetitive, and most of th ..
Austin Chronicle
4.0
Tracks might be a bit slow for some, but its one of those films that quietly creeps up on you.As Robyn, Mia Wasikowska gives an unflashy, moving perfo ..
Time Out
4.0
To see the country and its historyparticularly its treatment of the nativesin a new light.
Vulture
3.1
Pulling off an odyssey epic like Tracks without leaning on dialogue or character drama requires a lot of patience, and the film has plenty of patience ..
Paste Magazine
4.4
SAANSEIN : THE LAST BREATH fails to bring any fresh air to Bollywood horror genres, its a strictly routine horror story.
Rogerebert
4.0
She could almost be the earthbound double of Sandra Bullocks drifting astronaut in Gravity: life in space is impossible, but loneliness can be a comfo ..
Telegraph
3.0
Its painful watching Cusack, a talented actor, sleepwalk through a procession of junky thrillers, presumably made to pay the bills.
Ny Daily News
3.5
Its an interesting story about personal resilience and while its not one of my top TIFF picks, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
JoBlo
1.9
The film is 112 minutes, but feels as long and as arduous as Davidsons real life trek.
The Globe And Mail
4.4
In a voice over, quoting from Davidsons book, Wasikowskas intrepid trekker says there are three gifts given to us to make life bearable: hope, jokes, ..
Philly
4.5
In 1997, Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) sets off on an ambitious journey: she intends to walk 2,000 miles from the remote northern Australia outpost ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.8
Despite its leisurely pace, the film proves a gripping journey both across Australia and into the heart of its heroine.
One Guys Opinion
3.8
Tracks has its share of spirituality and wonderful detail, but its often a movie thats best without dialogue, appreciating the hardship facing Davidso ..
Blu Ray
3.0
Australian adventurer Robyn Davidson gained worldwide recognition in the late 1970s for her arduous nine month journey from Alice Springs, in the Nort ..
Chicago Reader
3.1
It sounds fine and brave on the surface, but it hints at some unspoken drive on the part of the person saying it.
Mark Reviews Movies
4.4
Curran infuses the story with a sense of suspense, even intermittent peril, and stunning authenticity.
Usa Today
4.0
We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video Tracks stars Mia Wasikowsk ..
The Times
4.0
At its best, though, Tracks has both lyricism and a real epic quality.
Independent
3.8
A few unnecessary flashbacks sketch in the reasons Robyn wants to be alone.But Curran keeps the usual Hollywood camel shit at a safe distance.
Rolling Stone
4.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:minsDirected by John Curran, Tracks is based on the true story of adventurer Robyn Davidson, who walked ..
View London
3.1
So what is this movie.At its best, Tracks is a gorgeously filmed but impressively unsentimental story about a woman accomplishing something by and for ..
News Day
3.5
The Weinstein Company bought the U.S. rights to John Currans Outback drama/adventure Tracks last September after its world premiere in competition at ..
Film Journal
3.0
Not that this is sentimental fare; on the contrary, the film celebrates and explores both the loneliness and the resolve of its increasingly weathered ..
The Guardian
3.0
Its watchable and accessible drama but in terms of real emotional complexity, it travels light.
The Guardian
4.0
Her camera captures the beauty of the desert, but also its danger, of which there is plenty.The dry sand, the swirling wind, the striking sight of Dav ..
Az Central
3.0
The film falls short when it comes to evoking the loneliness of being surrounded by all that space.
Smh
3.0
Crossing The Desert, Making Tracks Enlarge this image toggle caption Transmission Films Transmission Films Scenic and a touch bloodless, Tracks is a t ..
Npr
3.8
After witnessing Wasikowskas tour de force, its hard to imagine that even Oscar winner Witherspoon can top it.
Star Tribune
4.0
Director John Curran has done a fine job.For obvious visual reasons, film makers have long been attracted to the Australian Outback, but while landsca ..
Daily Mail
4.5
type Movie Current Status In Season mpaa PG 13 runtime 110 minutes Limited Release Date 09/19/14 performer Adam Driver, Mia Wasikowska director John C ..
Ew
3.0
But, sadly, Curran never quite solves the problem of making a story about someone trekking through endless sand dunes riveting.
Flim List
4.0
However familiar the terrain, this is a vivid, heartbreaking and captivating character piece and travel movie in one, guided by an outstanding Wasikow ..
Empire
2.5
Funny and imaginative, with the warmth of a secretly shared smile.
Eye For Film
3.8
Its exhausting but exhilarating.You learn a lot about the invincible human spirit.
Observer
4.0
It requires viewers to be patient and mindful and to be comfortable with silences.Its a small price to pay.
Common Sense Media
5.0
Pride ends on a note of triumph, but it leaves a long sigh of regret in its wake.
New Yorker
4.5
To the list of greatest real life adventurers to stand at the center of a great movie, we can now add Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska), the intrepid Au ..
Boston Herald
3.1
Whenever Robyn Davidson, the heroine of John Currans golden hued Aussie travelogue Tracks, is asked why shes embarking on a 1,700 mile trek alone on f ..
Slant Magazine
4.4
But for all its simplicity, Tracks the movie is a poignant, deeply emotional story.
Washington Post
3.0
Despite the otherworldly scenery and some predictable tragedy Robyn can be maddeningly careless about her animals welfare this proves to be a rather l ..
The New York Times
3.0
Yet despite the majestic scenery its hard to feel quite so engaged.
Express
3.5
The long deserved triumph is present, but what comes after the journey
The Film Stage
4.4
Im glad nobody else got the role.Wasikowska is wonderful here, unaffected and affecting, but then she has long been a young actress conveying a rich a ..
Chicago Tribune
5.0
In it he presents a vision of nature that shimmers with uncanny beauty and eerie solitude, transcended by Mia Wasikowska in one of the best performanc ..
Boston Globe
3.8
Robin Clifford Laura Clifford Movement and changed have been important to Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) for her whole life.
Reeling Reviews
3.8
Robin Clifford Laura Clifford Movement and changed have been important to Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) for her whole life.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
So while there are moments of great suspense and breathtaking peril along the way, this is not a thriller.
Flickfilosopher
4.0
The sheer audacity of Davidsons exploits she was accompanied only by camels and a Labrador for most of the journey was sure to trigger astonished gasp ..
The Irish Times
3.0
A little more psychological insight wouldnt have gone amiss, though.
Total Film
4.5
But the entire film harnesses the infinite spectrum of shimmering natural light, darkness and shadow in breathtaking ways.
Hollywood Reporter
2.5
The film is lovely to look at, with cleanly framed, golden hued widescreen images of desert scenery so evocative you practically taste the dust.Unfort ..
The Atlantic
4.5
But it is the sensitivity that Driver and Wasikowska capture between Rick and Robyn that stays with you.
Los Angeles Times
4.5
Anchored by a fine and flinty performance from Mia Wasikowska, director John Currans gorgeously rendered adventure saga succeeds not only in capturing ..
Variety
3.8
Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You To Know He *Is* The Motherf*cking Grinch The Grinch star takes Mike Ryan through the final scenes of Avengers: Infinity ..
Hit Fix
3.8
This movie, Tracks, was shot first and is in theaters now.Its a similar film, and without the other ones deep emotional backstory but it has its own p ..
Nj
3.8
Highly commercial, but also thoughtful and suspenseful.Do yourself a favour and dont Google the result prior to seeing.
The Star
1.3
*/**** directed by John Curran by Walter Chaw Kind of like a dustier Eight Below, in which Mia Wasikowska walks four camels and a dog across the Austr ..
Film Freak Central
3.8
Objects rise up from the heat and flow across it and its hard to tell whether a camel or a car or a sandstorm is coming closer or moving out of reach.
Oregon Live
4.5
Its a road movie, a drama and character study and emotionally the film resonates on all levels.
Urban Cine File
4.0
Trackss introspection may put off those after a glossy, sweeping desert epic, but this is a poignant, gently affecting story thats worth seeking out.
Digital Spy
3.8
But I found the sprawling, wild visuals in Tracks, and the long silences as the sunburned Robyn traverses some of the worlds least hospitable lands, m ..
New York Post
3.5
Instead it delivers a real sense of the mental and physical challenges Davidson faced, capturing both the monotony and danger of her six month journey ..
Nz Herald
3.0
Its a journeywoman film front and centre; one that should appeal to those who flocked to 2010s The Way.
Flicks
2.5
Its not as rewarding a trip as The Way Back or as boring as Gerry..Viewers will shrug off what they see of this real born wanderer.
Red Eye Chicago
4.0
Instead, Curran offers a character study about one of the rarest sights in Western cinema: a well adjusted female loner.
The Stranger
3.0
The film sharply captures elements of Aboriginal culture along the way, with lively characters and some thrilling adventures.
Contact Music
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
3.5
Theres much more to it than there seems, thanks to a wonderfully layered performance by Wasikowska...one of the brightest young talents acting today.
Hollywood And Fine
3.8
Some will simply see this film as just a thing that happened.The hope is that others will connect with it a little more deeply.
The Film Pie
2.5
Yet Curran, who turned difficult characters into combustible drama for his first two films, Praise and We Dont Live Here Anymore, keeps the conflict m ..
The Dissolve
4.3
Still, its a beautiful and inspirational story, and a real filmmaking coup for Curran which should be getting a far more high profile release than its ..
ComingSoon
3.8
Adapted from Davidsons bestselling memoir of the same name, Tracks is a beautiful, cathartic piece of process storytelling.
Under The Radar Mag
4.0
Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver in Tracks (Picture: Supplied) Ever thought of jacking it all in and heading off to the great unknown
Metro
2.5
A lot of the film rather becomes about the will they/wont they romance between Davidson and Smolan, reducing an epic journey to something less than it ..
Movie Mezzanine
3.5
Its a struggle screenwriter Marion Nelson just barely overcomes, but at 113 minutes, Tracks will likely feel as if its outstaying its welcome to all b ..
Streaming Quickflix
4.5
The unlikely trip is financed by National Geographic, who sends photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) at signposts along the way to mythologize her y ..
New City Film
5.0
John Currans Tracks retells the incredible true story of Robyns nine month trek, and does it with such spectacular cinematography (by Mandy Walker) an ..
Review Express
4.0
But this offers some very different pleasures to Bullocks Gravity and Redfords All Is Lost.After all, as this film is based on Davidsons memoirs we al ..
Daily Star
3.8
Theres no great message here; simply an evocation of a remarkable experience that meant something great to someone at a certain time.
Am Ny
4.5
Tracks is a humbling and enthralling experience as any youll experience in a cinema.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
3.0
In spite of the fact that Australia is arguable the country that most wants to kill you, in 1977 Robyn Davidson decided to walk across it alone.Its Au ..
Sky
4.0
Extremely good...the role of Robyn Davidson a woman of lunar loneliness and strength is the kind of experience that is bound to transform the already ..
Metro Active
3.5
It lingers over its most beautiful qualities, sometimes at the expense of the narrative, particularly in the saggy final quarter.
Impulse Gamer
4.0
Everest in Beyond the Edge and Thor Heyerdals rafting the seas in Kon Tiki.
Film Forward
3.5
Currans willingness to let the images carry the story marks a shrewd change of tactics after the intermittently impressive but over determined Stone a ..
Cinema Scope
4.0
Tracks hints at varying theories and its refreshing that the film never gets carried away with answering the why definitively.
Standard Net Au
2.5
I leave it to you whether or not this plot point is worth getting upset over.
Bad Ass Digest
3.5
Maybe its a chick thing, but Tracks has all the drama of a female coming of age movie without all the drama of a female coming of age movie.
O Canada
5.0
The skilful direction and filming also succeeds in conveying a remarkable amount of storytelling with barely any need for words.
The Mercury
4.0
Tracks is an invitation rarely proffered by a modern film: one that asks us to consider what we really need.
Signature Reads
3.5
Despite this, Tracks is an engaging, beautiful film that overcomes its flaws impressively.
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