Freeway Reviews
September 10, 2020
Not for the faint hearted but should have been much bigger than it was.
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| Original Score: 4/5
March 13, 2019
Freeway is far from a perfect film but well worth seeing, even for those who don't count themselves as fans of Witherspoon.
January 2, 2018
The greatness of [Matthew] Bright's storytelling lies in his sympathy and admiration for his characters, especially his Red Riding Hood.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
March 6, 2011
Darkly humorous, witty and nasty, Freeway is an original take on the Red Riding Hood fairytale, featuring a wonderful performance by the teenage Reese Witherspoon, before she became a star
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| Original Score: B
January 28, 2011
[The] characters are crisp and fascinating, and the movie has a great anything-can-happen B-movie excitement feel to it.
March 26, 2009
"Freeway" is a thoroughly nasty piece of work, the product of a filmmaker with a ludicrously misplaced confidence in his own cleverness.
February 13, 2008
One of the most stubbornly original and electrifying films not only of 1996, but of the '90s, period.
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| Original Score: 5/5
January 26, 2006
There's not much edification in store, and [director] Bright cruises over some bumpy plot holes, but the teen's perspective does put a black comic spotlight on wider social hypocrisies.
October 10, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
September 28, 2005
Original Score: 3/5
July 11, 2005
Original Score: 4/5
June 9, 2005
Original Score: 0/5
May 31, 2005
Original Score: 4/5
July 30, 2003
It's just the sort of thing Oliver Stone strove so hard to achieve in Natural Born Killers, and [writer/director Matthew] Bright pulls it off effortlessly.
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| Original Score: 4/5
July 8, 2003
Original Score: 4/5
May 20, 2003
Freeway glints here and there with dark humor amounting to a knowing wink that undercuts the cautionary tale at its heart and the seriousness of its graphic sociology.
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| Original Score: 2/5
May 14, 2003
Freeway somehow manages to be hip, imaginative and hilarious. Road film, comedy, prison drama and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers all rolled into one.
Original Score: 3.5/4
January 30, 2003
Original Score: 4/5
November 28, 2002
Shockingly dark and nasty take on the Red Riding Hood tale.
Original Score: 4/5
November 7, 2002
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| Original Score: 3/5