An unforgettable mountaintop experience that touches the heart and makes the spirit soar.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

The young independent filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has crafted a careful and subtle movie about both the promise and despair of life that's told mainly in the faces of its two very different leads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2018

Although there's a lot in this movie by which to be impressed, there is still something missing. The main trouble is that Solo was very hard to believe - maybe even too good to be true.

| Aug 9, 2018

Goodbye Solo is Bahrani's best film so far, better even than Chop Shop. The images produced by Michael Simmonds, his regular cinematographer, are more definitive, more miniature.

| Dec 13, 2017

Goodbye Solo feels lived-in rather than forced upon us. Bahrani, who is his own editor, and regular DP Michael Simmonds have a sad, solitary, streetlamp-lit feel for night-shift rhythms.

| Sep 29, 2015

Goodbye Solo relies on forced character dynamics and two clunkily directed, monotonous turns, in a milieu...that fails to take satisfactory shape.

| Oct 20, 2014

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

As a diary of travels in multiculti America, it's in the same bag as The Visitor, for better or worse.

| Aug 18, 2011

Un entrañable y sutil retrato humano, sostenido por el choque y la complementariedad entre dos caracteres muy distintos. Excelente elección de actores que parecen interpretarse a sí mismos.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 7, 2010

Hopeful about the rewards that can be mined from the broadening of perspective that comes with getting to know someone outside of your usual social zone.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 28, 2010

One of the year's best films!

| Original Score: 88/100 | Dec 21, 2009

An odd-couple relationship fuels a slow-burning but ultimately moving emotional and spiritual journey in Ramin Bahrani's third feature.

| Dec 16, 2009

Utterly engrossing dual-character study, unfolding with a serene disregard for indie quirkiness, Goodbye Solo radiates authenticity.

| Dec 16, 2009

The problem trying to deal with a self-destructive pessimist is you can never convince them that tomorrow might just be a better day.

| Original Score: B | Nov 29, 2009

Goodbye Solo asks far more questions than it answers, yet there's something in the tender humanity of the journey that seems to matter much more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2009

Working to a spare screenplay, Bahrani offers none of the usual clues about either the cabbie's surprising determination to prevent the tragedy or the old man's reasons for suicide. This doesn't always help the quiet drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2009

The final sequence up in the mountains is particularly affecting.

| Oct 15, 2009

Subtle and unflinching, this is genuine and charming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2009