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By Lee M (4,001) on 09 May 2017

This low-budget noir thriller is more style than substance, with a handful of visual gimmicks supporting a clichéd screenplay…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 23 Apr 2017

If Detour appears a touch too familiar for its own good at times, director Christopher Smith puts enough of his own stamp on the material to…

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By Troy K (898) on 16 Apr 2017

Much better than expected, but still lacking...worth a watch…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for SciFiNow (378) on 27 Feb 2017

In flirting with the parallel plotting of Sliding Doors (1998), Detour not only finds graphic ways of highlighting its character's moral choices,…

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By Andy Crump (279) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 Jan 2017

The film's gimmick is well-orchestrated and engaging, but it's weighed down by too many contrivances and too much unnecessary pastiche…

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By Reviewsmovies (6) on 22 Jan 2017

It uses the audience as a tool by having the audience think at all times to comprehend what is going on, but does not succeed as much as other…

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By Kimber Myers (423) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Jan 2017

There’s something fresh in Detour, but it’s buried underneath a largely unremarkable movie…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 21 Jan 2017

Neither narrative is particularly compelling, but the road trip one has an edge, because travel's always fun…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Jan 2017

Christopher Smith’s self-consciously stylish genre homage finally feels like a baby film noir, playacting without the requisite bone-deep dread…

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By Chance Solem-Pfeifer (41) for PopMatters (2,617) on 20 Jan 2017

If Detour would have been flawed and self-important it'd be unforgivable, but in the end, Smith thankfully shows a lot of verve and not much…

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By Joe Leydon (915) for Variety (12,700) on 19 Jan 2017

It may be tempting, and not entirely inaccurate, to describe Christopher Smith’s Detour as “Sliding Doors” reimagined by Quentin Tarantino,…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Jan 2017

What’s painfully clear is that all the artfully composed shots, hinky situations and extra conceptual surprises can’t make this Detour…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 18 Jan 2017

Detour is just film-school-ish synthesis, right down to the cinematography-midterm shot lit through venetian blinds and the anachronistic analog…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Jan 2017

The effect of the film becomes not unlike watching a puzzle solve itself without demanding either the audience’s emotional or intellectual…

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