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A strangely tepid experience for such searing psychological material. Nov 1, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
A strangely tepid experience for such searing psychological material.
Sheila O'Malley
There's a strange heft to its hollowness. Oct 31, 2013 | Full Review…
There's a strange heft to its hollowness.
Robert Abele
"Big Sur" cracks the code of how to adapt Jack Kerouac for the screen. Oct 31, 2013 | Full Review…
"Big Sur" cracks the code of how to adapt Jack Kerouac for the screen.
Stephen Holden
Sometimes feels like a beautiful illustration, rather than an adaptation, of Kerouac's prose. Oct 31, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Sometimes feels like a beautiful illustration, rather than an adaptation, of Kerouac's prose.
John DeFore
With Kerouac declaring that "the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind," we're still left waiting for the filmmaker who can take us there. Oct 31, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
With Kerouac declaring that "the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind," we're still left waiting for the filmmaker who can take us there.
Elizabeth Weitzman
Nobody's given the opportunity to do much more than brood prettily and occasionally shout carpe diembromides into the pounding surf. Oct 31, 2013 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Nobody's given the opportunity to do much more than brood prettily and occasionally shout carpe diembromides into the pounding surf.
Mike D'Angelo
The film is driven by narration taken from passages of Kerouac's own prose, which celebrate the enthusiasm and passion he holds for life while his addictions eat away at his body and mind. Nov 29, 2017 | Full Review…
The film is driven by narration taken from passages of Kerouac's own prose, which celebrate the enthusiasm and passion he holds for life while his addictions eat away at his body and mind.
Josh Terry
Ultimately, Big Sur demonstrates the limitations of Kerouac's text, how personal it is to each reader and how unsatisfactory it feels on the big screen. Jan 9, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
Ultimately, Big Sur demonstrates the limitations of Kerouac's text, how personal it is to each reader and how unsatisfactory it feels on the big screen.
Roxana Hadadi
An ingenious way to bring the story to life, such an experimental visual form's potential to captivate might leave something to be desired. Jun 22, 2016 | Rating: C | Full Review…
An ingenious way to bring the story to life, such an experimental visual form's potential to captivate might leave something to be desired.
Jared Mobarak
...works as a kind of tone poem, drenching the senses in beautifully sad imagery, as Kerouac's poetry and prose sound over images of the sparkling Pacific. Dec 5, 2013 | Rating: 87/100 | Full Review…
...works as a kind of tone poem, drenching the senses in beautifully sad imagery, as Kerouac's poetry and prose sound over images of the sparkling Pacific.
Philip Martin
Clearly edited to evoke a feeling of slipstream, stream-of-consciousness connection, but little more than a rolling delivery service of smugness, self-destruction, hedonism and pretentiousness. Nov 8, 2013 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Clearly edited to evoke a feeling of slipstream, stream-of-consciousness connection, but little more than a rolling delivery service of smugness, self-destruction, hedonism and pretentiousness.
Brent Simon
Big Sur rises and fades, shifts and moves, through movements and melodies, singing a beautifully sad song for an era and a man who lost his way. Nov 7, 2013 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Big Sur rises and fades, shifts and moves, through movements and melodies, singing a beautifully sad song for an era and a man who lost his way.
Kevin Jagernauth
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