A quiet, moving character study, Off the Map never drifts into genre predictability and features uniformly excellent acting and sharp one-liners from screenwriter Joan Ackerman.

| Jul 11, 2016

You'll get more entertainment value by staring into your refrigerator than you will by watching this meandering meditation on what it means to be unclear on any concept you can dream up as you sleep through the movie.

| Original Score: D | Apr 16, 2009

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A unique and quietly memorable multi-character study.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2005

I should point out that one character that makes the biggest impact is the landscape itself.

| Original Score: B+ | May 31, 2005

[Off the Map] takes time to breathe, to savor the present and not get bogged down in all the little things that often dominate our attention.

| Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2005

Scott lets the story take its own time, revealing its secrets in its own special way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2005

Off the Map ... is a movie you soak in and examine, like a painting in an art gallery. You study its shades and lines so you can appreciate the work as a whole.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2005

Quiet and quirky, yet refreshingly unpretentious, Off the Map is a welcome sojourn in a place that seems strange, yet entirely familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 28, 2005

[A] lovely film, which hardly ever makes a move that feels wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 21, 2005

...eloquently written but not overwritten, with a story that ultimately feels less like a literary construct and more like a spontaneous celebration of a few lived lives...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2005

You can't get past the knowledge that you've seen it all before, and often better.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 15, 2005

Off The Map's landscape is intermittently engaging.

Full Review | Apr 15, 2005

A poetically rugged demonstration of these hypotheses, in which nature and human nature are shown to be variations of the same thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2005

A journey into an austere land of moviemaking where few artists dare go.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2005

Its distinctive rhythms and off-kilter humor introduce us to some intriguing people and make us eager to find out what will happen to them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2005

The stunning, almost scarily beautiful New Mexico landscape plays such a pivotal role that it ought to be listed in the credits right below Sam Elliott's name.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 14, 2005

Actually, Scott's drab family drama is easy to find. It's located somewhere on the border between tedious and terrible.

| Apr 13, 2005

Off the Map requires a bit of patience and a willingness to let the story come to you, but it's worth the wait.

| Apr 9, 2005

There's very scant plot here; rather, it feels like a sort of escapist fantasy for celebrities in the big city who get tired of all the people surrounding them.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2005