Nobody's given the opportunity to do much more than brood prettily and occasionally shout carpe diembromides into the pounding surf.
– Mike D'Angelo,
AV Club,
31 Oct 2013
rotten:
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,
New York Daily News,
31 Oct 2013
fresh:
Sometimes feels like a beautiful illustration, rather than an adaptation, of Kerouac's prose.
– John DeFore,
Washington Post,
31 Oct 2013
fresh:
"Big Sur" cracks the code of how to adapt Jack Kerouac for the screen.