It’s all a bit too much and too shallow.

| Feb 12, 2024

... It’s no one’s finest hour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2023

The script does almost nothing to build up to the revelation at the end – and the human trafficking angle feels icky.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2023

Binoche, Grillo and – especially – Freeman, all act as though they can't wait for the ordeal to be over. After two hours of Paradise Highway, you will sympathise.

| Mar 13, 2023

Juliette Binoche is unfortunately miscast as a gruff truck driver who goes on the run with a child trafficking victim in this tedious and tacky movie that is ineptly made on every single level. Paradise Highway leads to a hellish road of lousy filmmaking.

| Sep 11, 2022

Clichéd child trafficking drama has violence, language.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2022

Ambition...effort...well-intentioned...some genuinely affecting grace notes on occasion, but it's also shameless.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 27, 2022

Once the film reaches its finale, Paradise Highway is all lost opportunities and wasted talent. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 8, 2022

No matter how good Binoche can be, she can’t elevate the melodramatic weight that slows down her newest film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 7, 2022

Yes, Juliette Binoche is a truck driver, and after this compelling crime drama, you’d follow her rig anywhere.

| Original Score: 73/100 | Aug 4, 2022

Paradise Highway wastes two great actors.

| Aug 3, 2022

A solid enough outing for a first feature, Paradise Highway ultimately fails to establish itself as anything more than middle of the road.

| Aug 1, 2022

...neither brutal enough to play as an exploitation thriller, nor enough of a world-building deep dive into trucking and trafficking to measure up against similar and superior dramas like What Alice Found and Honey Bee.

| Jul 31, 2022

Newcomer Hala Finley is easily the standout here and one of the only reasons to consider watching what is ultimately a reasonably routine thriller with a bland supporting cast and obvious plot swerves

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 30, 2022

I've certainly never seen a film quite like Paradise Highway, but in the end, I'm not quite sure why it exists except to give Binoche that rare opportunity to work in an American production.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2022

“Paradise Highway” is the kind wayward, tonally muddled project an actress the caliber of Binoche would only sign onto if promises were broken and payback was required.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 29, 2022

Despite the novelty of watching Juliette Binoche play a Deep South truck driver, this predictable thriller takes a long and winding road to nowhere.

| Jul 29, 2022

‘Paradise Highway’ chooses the road less taken, but doesn’t quite make the trip worthwhile for its audience

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 29, 2022

There are ... issues here, mainly to do with the way this story falls into so many routines and clichés.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2022

Though it is refreshing to see members of law enforcement focused on recovering and supporting a victim rather than pursuing her abusers, it does not allow for much narrative tension.

| Jul 28, 2022