Bill and Turner Ross blend documentary and scripted fiction to create a portrait of a group of high school students who have spent their lives being overlooked...

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 16, 2025

Gasoline Rainbow effortlessly lifts the spirits. It also has cinema coming out of its pores, which makes it more than a little disheartening that it only got a very limited theatrical release...

| Sep 16, 2024

The scale of possibilities, the sense of a future yet unwritten -- it’s powerful stuff! Gasoline Rainbow captures this with an epic sweep that’s an almost natural byproduct of road movies.

| Aug 1, 2024

Gasoline Rainbow is a Gen Z road trip movie that blends fiction and non-fiction – but is hampered by a story that leaves you wanting more.

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

Straddling the current revival of the picaresque in US indie cinema (The Sweet East, Riddle of Fire) and cinéma vérité, this is a pleasing meander, skilfully directed, shot, and edited by the upcoming auteur siblings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2024

It’s a lingering look into a generational abyss, an immersive reach for authenticity. <i>Gasoline Rainbow</i> works in its smallest moments, ticklish and telling, stumbling purposefully upon beauty.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 4, 2024

More shadowplay than traditional movie, and more real than reel, Gasoline Rainbow is one of the more fascinating films of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 25, 2024

The film celebrates universal themes of dreaming big, embracing adventure, and finding community and friendship, and those open to the movie’s experimental approach will find a heartfelt representation of the journey into adulthood.

| Jun 11, 2024

The movie takes off in the last third, when it comes together as a portrait of a wayward optimism that a lot of us lose.

| Jun 8, 2024

It's a little shaggy and seems aimless, but it ends up where it belongs.

| Jun 8, 2024

It’s not quite as exhilarating as Bloody Nose, but it’s still quite a ride, with amazing visuals and well-chosen subjects.

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

By the end, you’re left feeling a lot like the group probably will when they look back on their adventure. It’s hard to say how profound the whole experience was, though it sure was fun while it lasted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2024

... It is a pleasure to accompany these kids in their initiatory, playful, and formative experiences. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2024

Thrillingly freewheeling and creatively invigorating, if a little confounding for audience members who prefer a neat delineation between documentary and fiction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2024

It is a tribute to road movies of all time, but its charm lies more in the sensory experience it offers than in the narrative content. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 3, 2024

Whatever you want to call such a creation, in the Ross’ hands it boils down to irresistible storytelling, built around authentic, universal emotions that are in this case enhanced by a youthful sense of adventure and an undercurrent of vague yearning.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 2, 2024

An ever-evolving coming-of-age road trip explores space and time, forging meaningful friendships to a cathartic conclusion of profound compassion.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 1, 2024

a paean to the joy of living life to its fullest and embracing what cannot be seen around the bend of the road.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 1, 2024

Aesthetically, it’s the Ross brothers’ most beautifully shot film with handled cameras harnessing magic hour sunlight perfectly to capture these young people on the cusp of adulthood.

| May 31, 2024

There’s real exuberance in the unpredictability of the path, in the energies of the cast, and in the vivid, freewheeling imagery — shot by the directors, with stills inserted, some by the five leads.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2024