A beguiling film with an incredible flourish of a conclusion that drowns itself in atmosphere to give it life.

| May 14, 2025

Beautiful and transporting. Cinema at its best.

| May 13, 2025

Loopy, exhilarating, formally nimble and utterly captivating, this is a joyous treasure trove for cinephiles, as well as one of the best films of the year.

| May 12, 2025

[Miguel Gomes] surprises us once again with his formal inventiveness. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 5, 2025

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