Away We Go Reviews
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...takes the boorishness of conventional Americans as a given and valorizes nonconformity for its own sake.
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| Original Score: 79/100
Hollywood.com
This hapless and annoying episodic comedy is one road trip you'll probably wish you hadn't taken.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Examiner.com
Krasinski and Rudolph have nothing to play. They are a stand-in for the audience in the same way that Styrofoam peanuts protect the contents of your package; lifeless, breakable, malleable, and totally unrelated to what they are assigned to protect.
Film4
This is a feelgood movie that will make you want to break up with your significant other, head for the nearest, seediest strip joint and get very, very drunk.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Filmstar Magazine
Although Away We Go doesn't sum to the icon of loveliness that the filmmakers might have hoped for - it is too tonally fractured - the movie does suggest avenues that Sam Mendes might consider exploring in the future.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Times [UK]
Away We Go is a reminder that being a successful author does not mean you can dash off a screenplay without learning the craft.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Triple J
The fact that director Sam Mendes always gives off the impression that he's oh-so-much-smarter than his characters doesn't help.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
PopMatters
A finely pedigreed comic road film that, when all is said and done, is too finely-tooled for the NPR set to have much life left in it.
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| Original Score: 5/10
What Would Toto Watch?
The quirky meter hits red early and often in the disappointing Away We Go
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| Original Score: 2/4
CinemaBlend.com
Away We Go feels like a short story, an overwritten exercise, a twee idea dragged to feature length.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticYou may very well enjoy Away We Go more than I did. But rest assured that you will never love this movie as much as it loves itself.
FilmsInReview.com
Indulgent bore about a freeloading confused couple who visit friends. Nothing happens.
Urban Cinefile
The film is a bit too sentimental and rather flat, despite some amusing scenes
NewsBlaze
Too much information bedrooms, and vibes that may encourage skipping parenthood altogether for those who haven't quite made up their minds yet. And a pro-isolationist impression that the grass is always greener on one's own side of the picket fence.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Full-up with caricatures... fails in the most dire way to make any comments on the state of parenting and coupling in America rooted in actual observation.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Director Sam Mendes fails to make them as beautifully fragile as he wants to.
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| Original Score: 2/4
ColeSmithey.com
The movie almost works as a cautionary tale about global overpopulation by imbecile parents, but even that would be a bridge too far for this pathetic navel rub that comes with the same sense of entitlement that it pretends to skewer.
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| Original Score: D
Away We Go is dead-end Quirkville, penned by real-life couple Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, successful authors taking an unfortunate wrong turn into movie writing.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Combustible Celluloid
The film is very funny when broken into individual scenes, but it takes too many easy potshots at low targets and thereby fails to come together as an emotional whole.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
