Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
It took more than half a century, but Jack Kerouac's autobiographical cult novel of bohemian youth in postwar America has reached the screen in wonderful form.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
21 Mar 2013
fresh:
"On the Road" is something of a sprawling mess, but then so is the novel.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
21 Mar 2013
rotten:
Walter Salles's warm but strangely staid adaptation of a piece of literature that was never meant to be tamed as cinema.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
22 Mar 2013
fresh:
It's not a wreck of a movie; it's not a sleek race car either. But there's heat to be felt here.