The film's wry, playful deconstruction of the Orientalist gaze occupies that delightful space between romanticism and authenticity.

| Apr 25, 2025

Grand Tour is a slow burn that pays off beautifully as it lulls us into its particular rhythm and gorgeously textured images.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2025

While I didn’t wholly grok Grand Tour, there is no question that it’s exactly the kind of singular artistic leap you have to be grateful somebody, anybody is still taking these days.

| Apr 18, 2025

It is a film of many enchantments.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 16, 2025

Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour is a film that is easy to lavish with kind descriptive words. Beguiling, mesmerising, playful, bizarre, beautiful—all slip off the tongue effortlessly when describing it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2025

Gomes doesn’t undercut the romance... instead, he leans into its petulance, allowing the formal ambiguity of the nonnarrative sections to suggest the possibility of another interpretation entirely.

| Apr 14, 2025

Grand Tour is an intoxicatingly beautiful film at times, and mostly a hypnotically watchable one. It is funny, playful, a bit overlong, probably quite profound, almost certainly satiric, wholly unrepeatable and unclassifiable.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 10, 2025

Grand Tour's no must-see destination, but it's got its fair share of noteworthy sights for its visitors.

| Apr 7, 2025

Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes is cleverly exploring the interaction between European and Asian cultures in disarming and unusually involving ways.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2025

It’s rare that you get a film that is both eloquently literary and fluidly musical; credit goes to Gomes for holding those two things at once.

| Apr 2, 2025

Gomes crafts two movies at once, one a travel doc, one a colonial tale of out-of-place Europeans, and lets them occasionally entangle.

| Mar 31, 2025

... an acquired taste for those unfamiliar with Gomes’ previous work, but patience in the deliberately paced story is rewarded with sumptuous craftsmanship.

| Mar 28, 2025

If you can roll with atmospherics that are their own reason for being, “Grand Tour” has plenty, and they’re all beautifully realized.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2025

[T]he movie's extended punch line is obvious and becomes a bit repetitive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2025

Gomes disrupts the conventional logic of adventure cinema and proposes a narrative where archival images and contemporary recordings overlap, creating a sensorial experience that defies categorization. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 27, 2025

Beauty is pleasurable, but the film’s use of evocative visuals to focus on storytelling more broadly is what makes it a quiet knockout.

| Mar 27, 2025

Even days after viewing, days after this feast, I can’t stop chewing on it, rolling it around in my head like a taste I can’t forget.

| Mar 27, 2025

Visiting a new country can beguile you in much the same way that seeing a new movie can.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2025

Gomes picks apart an imagined past by experiencing its present, at the same time sharply unpacking the screwball comedy by separating the running man and the pursuing woman.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 25, 2025

Grand Tour reconstructs the mythical colonial past from the genre of romantic tragedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 7, 2025