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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 22 Mar 2013

The film has a dreamy nocturnal lyricism, especially in scenes of Moriarty's streamlined 1949 Hudson Commodore hurtling across America's lamp-lit…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 22 Mar 2013

It's not a wreck of a movie; it's not a sleek race car either. But there's heat to be felt here…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 22 Mar 2013

Walter Salles's warm but strangely staid adaptation of a piece of literature that was never meant to be tamed as cinema…

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By Jeff Beck (630) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 21 Mar 2013

This makes for a rather uninspired film that, despite being based off of a novel considered a classic, fails to grab the viewer's attention…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Mar 2013

The result is a movie that, like the book, is episodic and has dips in energy but has more than its share of glory and illumination…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 21 Mar 2013

It took more than half a century, but Jack Kerouac's autobiographical cult novel of bohemian youth in postwar America has reached the screen…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 21 Mar 2013

A straightforward and rather sane version of the events described in the book and, against all odds, a surprisingly effective movie…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 21 Mar 2013

On the Road is an honorable homage to the bennies-and-booze-and-bebop-driven hegiras undertaken by the fiercely dedicated anti-establishment…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Philadelphia City Paper (235) on 21 Mar 2013

Clutching Jack Kerouac's peripatetic roman à clef like a besotted sophomore, Walter Salles trails Kerouac and Neal Cassady's novelistic doppelgängers…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 21 Mar 2013

It’s engaging at times and wonderful to look at, but feels like it’s on the cusp of something bigger…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 21 Mar 2013

Notwithstanding the characters’ spiritual camaraderie, Salles’ emphasizes the hard physical labor and loneliness in Sal’s story, including…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 21 Mar 2013

Even if Salles' film can't possibly capture the impact of its source, it's intriguing enough to rate a place in the ever-expanding mythology…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 21 Mar 2013

It's not entirely successful, but it has many beautiful moments…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Mar 2013

Call it a successful failure. Some movies worth seeing are like that…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 21 Mar 2013

Comes off as the early days of douchebaggery in the aimless tale of a guy in love with the sound of his own voice…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 20 Mar 2013

Although Jack Kerouac's On the Road has been praised as a milestone in American literature, this film version brings into question how much…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 19 Mar 2013

The movie makes you feel as though you've just woken up from an all-time bender: disoriented, confused, and wondering why you just put yourself…

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By Dave White (762) for Movies.com (1,002) on 18 Mar 2013

They did what they wanted, even if it wasn't always that much, and they did it stylishly. While on drugs…

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By Andrew Simpson (34) for Fan The Fire (489) on 20 Jan 2013

In the end, it retains its status as a journey to who-knows-where, yet probably not in the way its original author intended…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 18 Jan 2013

Director Walter Salles, who knows a thing or two about picaresque journeys – in The MotorcycleDiaries, even in Central Station – does make…

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