If you can open yourself up to feel each moment of the dreamlike narrative rather than constantly try to piece together context, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt makes for stunningly evocative viewing.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 6, 2024

An astonishingly assured debut film that innately understands how memories are forged and indelibly remain.

| Sep 1, 2024

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a film that holds the notion of intimacy in a way that almost feels sacred

| Aug 20, 2024

It may not leave you enthralled, but All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt shows the director has great promise, especially visually. Maybe from this, a great river of filmmaking will form in the future.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Graceful, elegant, tactile, moving poetry by Raven Jackson. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is sense memory, but it is also an ode to how life ebbs and flows. Unmissable.

| Original Score: A+ | Jul 19, 2024

This kind of cinema is nourishing to our souls ... and All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a feast.

| May 29, 2024

Let its lyricism wash over your senses and into your heart.

| Feb 13, 2024

Even radiating intimacy at times, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt fails to validate a lasting claim on the heart. As a result, there’s simply not enough here to really engage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2024

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is visual proof of the ways history expands and repeats itself, and of how it’s possible to love and cherish memories without living in the past.

| Jan 14, 2024

While All Dirt Roads fails to offer up an absorbing portrait of a single person, it's nonetheless a wonderful experience for the senses and perhaps a promise of cinema’s next great poet.

| Jan 11, 2024

It is, admittedly, a test at times, and yet I can say that Jackson (this is her first feature) creates a few of the most remarkable shots I've seen in movies this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 29, 2023

... gorgeously evocative and compassionately contemplative character study about how our lives are shaped by the natural world around us.

| Dec 22, 2023

The scenes have amazing color palettes that capture the moods of the scenes amazingly. It’s a film that I feel you can understand with no sound for the most part. Seeing this film on the big screen was a great experience.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 4, 2023

The kind of evocative, impressionistic storytelling one might find in, say, films by Terrence Malick or Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a minimalist, observational masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 22, 2023

This tone poem spanning the life of a woman from girlhood to grandmother lacks any kind of narrative shape -- a dreadfully slow affair that tries to shorthand imagery for true emotion.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 22, 2023

Though not always fully realized, Dirt Road hits its share of evocative and memorable notes.

| Nov 17, 2023

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a cinematic poem about family, love, and where a person comes from.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 10, 2023

Without the central relationship between the adult sisters as a compass I don’t know if Jackson’s approach would work at all. But McClure and Ingram are first-rate, as vivid in their unspoken understanding as they are in their easygoing banter.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 10, 2023

Challenging in its lack of a narrative-driven story; could be a test of patience. But there is beauty to be discovered with strikingly poetic visual language. I wish I connected more strongly to what’s being presented but have no doubt that others will.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 10, 2023

Raven Jackson is creatively contemplative, and is able to create those meditations as visual truth. Although a slow walk, the characters wash over their lives with authentic emotions, including interconnections with the nature around them. W/interview.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 10, 2023