Land of Plenty Reviews

Deftly balances its viewpoints and pulls them off with a minimum of outrage or sermonizing.

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Only when the lessons end and characters become simply individuals trying to connect and communicate in the desolate landscape of a forgotten America does the film resonate.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Wim Wenders' first fiction featurefeature since 2000's The Million Dollar Hotel, rocky but respectable Land of Plenty proves the helmer often does better with low budgets, fast schedules and young collaborators.

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It casts a spell of compassionate humanity with a gently healing effect.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

There are some fine performances, as well as a surprising, well-earned and emotional pay-off that comes at the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

These intriguing characters and some gorgeous (for digital video) footage keep you involved, even as the plot meanders.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Hampered by an ending that overreaches needlessly, the film is nevertheless worthy and unmistakably the effort of an enduringly distinctive and important filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The flawed, fascinating Land of Plenty is easily Wenders' most vital work in more than a decade.

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Land of Plenty isn't for everyone, but patient viewers will be rewarded with a poignant look at life in America today.

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Michelle William's warm, emphathic presence made Wim Wenders' new 9/11 film into a truly watchable film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Works best as an illustration of the way conspiracy theories serve to weave threads of order, however fantastic, during moments of incomprehensible upheaval.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Land of Plenty has a few too many coincidences and tends to be sugary, but it has an important precautionary message in this age of terror.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

A caricature that indicts, if not our actual country, then a rather similar country that an outsider imagines America to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Williams eats the camera in a way you only get to see every year, if you're lucky.

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The sense of wonderment and desire for understanding that envelop the old soldier and the young disciple create a mood of profound optimism.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Major tragedy that September 11th has gone from horrifying to exploited... to, now, really freakin' boring German films about deserts and campervans.

Full Review | Original Score: D

About as unconvincing as any Hollywood film.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

not exactly lazy filmmaking, but it's hard to give it your complete attention

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Wenders handles America's physical landscape with characteristic clarity. But he never gets a handle on the trickier political terrain and so, like Uncle Paul, ends up chasing too many roads to nowhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4