A completely gorgeous and remarkable film... American Honey manages to depict the desperation of being a poor young person in a forgotten corner of America without condescending to or worshipping its destitute characters.

| Feb 11, 2021

American Honey is undeniably gorgeous. It's drenched in color; it drips with it like, yes, honey. In the center of it all is Sasha Lane as Star, just as bright (if not brighter), and impossible not to watch.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 8, 2017

It's the strategic vaporousness of the entire enterprise-its canny refusal to be "about" anything except an immersion its own roiling, over-conscientiously detailed millennial milieu-that rankles.

| Sep 28, 2017

Lane is a find -- bruised, soft, dreamy, hopeful -- and the film is at its strongest exploring the erotic chemistry between her and LaBeouf.

| Dec 9, 2016

For all its flaws, it's a strangely absorbing film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2016

The film is much too long with occasional false notes -- overwrought scenes which strain credibility... But Lane, who's never acted before, gives an astonishingly complex and persuasive performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2016

Within a glittering collage of soaring music, soft light and writhing bodies, this brilliant film draws the outline of a bleak economic landscape.

| Oct 21, 2016

Mixes the vérité grit of Ken Loach's sociopolitical parables with the awestruck natural beauty of Terrence Malick's rural cinematic dreams, all filtered through the eyes of an irrepressible heroine whose experiences are at once singular yet universal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2016

It's bold, captivating cinema, with a soundtrack that threatens to never leave your head.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 14, 2016

At nearly three hours, "American Honey" is the most indulgent movie of the year, and the one in most need of a serious trim. It makes its point early on and then keeps repeating it until the honey turns sour.

| Original Score: C | Oct 14, 2016

Andrea Arnold's new film, American Honey, throbs with raw teenage hormones and sheer chutzpah in a 21st-century version of On the Road.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2016

Writer-director Andrea Arnold artfully sets love against money and manages one of the best endings in recent memory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2016

Every corner of American Honey is crammed with colour, vitality and pulsing music. Though it is overlong at nearly three hours, the level of immersion in Star's adventures wouldn't have been as intense with a shorter film.

| Oct 13, 2016

Even though it does require you to spend nearly three hours in a min-van with young people who turn up the music real loud, you will not, in fact, regret it.

| Oct 13, 2016

Too long by at least an hour, American Honey is a movie that would have had more to say if it said less. It is ultimately like a Jim Jarmusch movie without a sense of humour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2016

It's a little too long, but holds the attention thanks to Lane's charisma, Ryan's breathtaking cinematography and the dizzying power of young love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 13, 2016

More than the sum of its shaky-cam parts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2016

But, even at its most obvious and ham-fisted, American Honey remains compelling, largely for Arnold's vividly verité, documentary-like cinematic style and a career-launching performance by Texan Sasha Lane who has never acted in a film before this.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 13, 2016

Some may consider "American Honey" too long and more than a bit repetitive. But Arnold's not after a mere snapshot. Her aim is nothing less than a mural of contemporary American life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2016

American Honey is too restless and impatient to establish anything and instead rides high on an obviously fabricated atmosphere.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2016