The film celebrates universal themes of dreaming big, embracing adventure, and finding community and friendship, and those open to the movie’s experimental approach will find a heartfelt representation of the journey into adulthood.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2024

The movie takes off in the last third, when it comes together as a portrait of a wayward optimism that a lot of us lose.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2024

It's a little shaggy and seems aimless, but it ends up where it belongs.

Full Review | Jun 8, 2024

It’s not quite as exhilarating as Bloody Nose, but it’s still quite a ride, with amazing visuals and well-chosen subjects.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2024

By the end, you’re left feeling a lot like the group probably will when they look back on their adventure. It’s hard to say how profound the whole experience was, though it sure was fun while it lasted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2024

... It is a pleasure to accompany these kids in their initiatory, playful, and formative experiences. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2024

Thrillingly freewheeling and creatively invigorating, if a little confounding for audience members who prefer a neat delineation between documentary and fiction.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2024

It is a tribute to road movies of all time, but its charm lies more in the sensory experience it offers than in the narrative content. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 3, 2024

Whatever you want to call such a creation, in the Ross’ hands it boils down to irresistible storytelling, built around authentic, universal emotions that are in this case enhanced by a youthful sense of adventure and an undercurrent of vague yearning.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 2, 2024

An ever-evolving coming-of-age road trip explores space and time, forging meaningful friendships to a cathartic conclusion of profound compassion.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jun 1, 2024

a paean to the joy of living life to its fullest and embracing what cannot be seen around the bend of the road.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 1, 2024

Aesthetically, it’s the Ross brothers’ most beautifully shot film with handled cameras harnessing magic hour sunlight perfectly to capture these young people on the cusp of adulthood.

Full Review | May 31, 2024

There’s real exuberance in the unpredictability of the path, in the energies of the cast, and in the vivid, freewheeling imagery — shot by the directors, with stills inserted, some by the five leads.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2024

It has the loose, empathetic vibe of a Gus Van Sant film, a chronicle of the mundane and the lyrical, with glory shots of sunsets and Pacific Northwest vistas. Gentle, optimistic, free-flowing, its vision of America is almost banal in its lack of menace.

Full Review | Original Score: B-plus | May 29, 2024

A movie in the tradition of “vibes” film-making, less interested in a propulsive plot than exploring the revealing and delightful moments that arise from spontaneous human interactions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2024

...plays with the filmmaking process in intriguing, fruitful ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 24, 2024

Their film is casual, but not self-indulgent, and crafted with care to make its somewhat wayward joyride sans specific destination (geographic or otherwise) feel like a journey that's worth taking.

Full Review | May 21, 2024

This wild, vicarious ride through youthful adventure is absolutely worth taking, for your own nostalgia and for the reminder that the kids are indeed alright.

Full Review | May 20, 2024

In a drama that depends on its organic structure, the constructed nature is a little too visible under the skin.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2024

See it, and see what you make of this new and quite wonderful example of this in-between cinematic tradition — and of Tony, Micah, Nichole, Nathaly and Makai, both real and imagined.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 19, 2024