A black comedy exploitation film with far more social commentary than expected. Sutherland and Witherspoon are magnetic and you wish they would interact more.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 7, 2021

Matthew Bright's Freeway is an intentionally offensive and hilarious update of Little Red Riding Hood with a tour de force performance from a pre-fame Reese Witherspoon.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

Not for the faint hearted but should have been much bigger than it was.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2020

Freeway is far from a perfect film but well worth seeing, even for those who don't count themselves as fans of Witherspoon.

| Mar 13, 2019

The greatness of [Matthew] Bright's storytelling lies in his sympathy and admiration for his characters, especially his Red Riding Hood.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 2, 2018

Darkly humorous, witty and nasty, Freeway is an original take on the Red Riding Hood fairytale, featuring a wonderful performance by the teenage Reese Witherspoon, before she became a star

| Original Score: B | Mar 6, 2011

[The] characters are crisp and fascinating, and the movie has a great anything-can-happen B-movie excitement feel to it.

| Jan 28, 2011

"Freeway" is a thoroughly nasty piece of work, the product of a filmmaker with a ludicrously misplaced confidence in his own cleverness.

| Mar 26, 2009

One of the most stubbornly original and electrifying films not only of 1996, but of the '90s, period.

| Original Score: A | Feb 13, 2008

There's not much edification in store, and [director] Bright cruises over some bumpy plot holes, but the teen's perspective does put a black comic spotlight on wider social hypocrisies.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jun 9, 2005

It's just the sort of thing Oliver Stone strove so hard to achieve in Natural Born Killers, and [writer/director Matthew] Bright pulls it off effortlessly.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2003

Freeway glints here and there with dark humor amounting to a knowing wink that undercuts the cautionary tale at its heart and the seriousness of its graphic sociology.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2003

Freeway somehow manages to be hip, imaginative and hilarious. Road film, comedy, prison drama and Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers all rolled into one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2003

Shockingly dark and nasty take on the Red Riding Hood tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2002