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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversRudolph, a comic force on "SNL," can speak volumes with the tilt of an eyebrow. She and Krasinski, of "The Office," are absolutely extraordinary. Ditto the film, which sneaks up and floors you.
- 83The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThough Away We Go lacks the screwball unpredictability of something like "Flirting With Disaster," it compensates with a unexpected depth of feeling, a novelist’s (or memoirist’s) sense of detail, and a panoramic view of what home means.
- 80The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbySome of the episodes are ripely satirical, others almost heartbreaking. Allison Janney appears as a coarse drunk who taunts her kids; Maggie Gyllenhaal is a pushy New Age mom whose aggressive virtue saps the strength of everyone around her.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliAway We Go is not as dramatically wrenching as "Revolutionary Road," but it's unquestionably more enjoyable.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA gilded entry in the cinema du quirk. It's a movie that invites you, all too often, to feel superior to the people on screen.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThough it's nice to see Mendes take a looser, not quite so studied approach to his filmmaking, some stops along the way -- like a detour to visit Burt's suddenly single brother (Paul Schneider) -- feel dramatically off-course.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIf we learn anything from Away We Go, it’s that a lack of ambition might not be such a bad thing after all.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinTravel--finding the self by escaping the self--is central to the novels of Eggers and Vida, but Mendes knows where he's going before he gets there. And so the subject of Away We Go turns out to be not travel but child-rearing, which is at best well-meaning and anguished and at worst downright monstrous.
- 30VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyEmerges as an oddly sour, unappealing road-trip scenario.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe road-trippers of Away We Go harbor no discernible ambitions whatsoever, which may make them true to Gen-Y life, but also renders them fatally uninteresting. For all the ground they cover geographically, dramatically their velocity remains zero. Mendes, too, seems to have trouble getting on board with the underachieving set.