Subtle complexity gives Away We Go a gentle resonance...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2024

Bittersweet and charming, Away We Go drives on emotional terrain, resulting in a wholly atypical romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 30, 2023

Rudolph and Krasinski have miles and miles of chemistry in this endearing road-trip movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 2, 2021

It washed over me with the most genuine sense of good humor and honest emotions... these were wonderful people, people I want to strive to be like.

| Jul 2, 2021

Overall, the film offers a shallow impression of America.

| Mar 4, 2021

A simple comedy with nothing unique enough to separate it from the pack.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 28, 2020

Burt and Verona are amiable enough travelling companions and their trip does throw up some moderately amusing situations, but the film's episodic structure does get a bit wearying.

| Nov 24, 2020

The kind of small, indie flick that even mainstream audiences can love.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

There is a core of sadness and loneliness in Away We Go, but too often Mendes drowns those plaintive elements in bellowing yuks and overplayed comedy.

| Jan 27, 2020

Mendes and Kuras capture the beauty, sense of restlessness, and even certain holiness in each place our protagonists set foot.

| Jan 18, 2020

Emotionally anchored by gifted performances from [Maya] Rudolph and [John] Krasinski, AWAY WE GO is poignant, funny, heartfelt and filled with love and adventure. This is the journey of life at its simplest and most beautiful.

| Nov 6, 2019

[Away We Go] proves to be a warm, engaging and utterly sweet little film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2019

The script, by husband-and-wife novelists Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, has real heart, though, without being cloying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2018

To Mendes's credit, he makes them seem real and vulnerable rather than cloying and self-righteous.

| Nov 1, 2018

It glorifies a tepid response to tough circumstances -- set to indie music. Which is kind of nauseating. But adorable.

| Oct 18, 2018

It's sweet, I suppose, but it's also oddly inconsequential, fake and annoying.

| Aug 30, 2018

This mild, charmless comedy is not the provocation critics made it out to be.

| Apr 30, 2018

It's to the actors' credit that they retain their authenticity amidst all these well-cast but cartoonishly drawn cutouts. Then again, perhaps Mendes's point was to throw Burt and Verona into relief by making everyone else a little ridiculous,

| Mar 28, 2018

I began to realize why I'd been resisting the film all along, in spite of its dogged charm. None of the places the couple visit seems remotely real.

| Jan 2, 2018

Overall, the movie was touching, funny at times, and really conveyed an imperfect couple's search for the perfect parenthood.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017