It isn’t a typical buddy road trip promising adventure and comical mishap. It’s a disaster story.

| May 7, 2025

The characters sketched out in Angarano and Christopher Nicholas Smith’s original screenplay are either too vague or schematic to feel real.

| May 3, 2025

I appreciate anyone trying to be a writing-acting-directing-producing Hollywood quadruple-threat, but Angarano should probably just focus on acting for a while.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 30, 2025

Sacramento is a quirky indie comedy about fatherhood and friendship that is unfortunately let down by its weaker emotional beats.

| Apr 26, 2025

Sacramento a sweet, often funny, reminder that there's always more growing up to do. But there's always help to be found, even in the unlikeliest of places.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 25, 2025

Good acting and chemistry between Michael Angarano and Michael Cera save this movie and make Sacramento worth checking out.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 18, 2025

“Sacramento” might not be about California’s capital per se, but it perfectly reflects the latent magic so many people have experienced in the city it’s named for, and the bonds people forge there.

| Apr 17, 2025

It’s the sort of film that makes me want to spend more time with these people, which is never a bad thing.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 17, 2025

Angarano has the showpiece role, but it’s Cera who proves himself, more than ever, to be a major actor.

| Apr 15, 2025

Here, the jokes will still make you laugh out loud, but it all feels pretty grounded.

| Apr 15, 2025

The prickly comedy of male-pattern personality collapse gives way to wisdom, something that “Sacramento” has in abundance.

| Apr 14, 2025

This heartwarming indie proves the 2000s dramedy has grown up.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 14, 2025

A broadly charming but rather shallow road trip comedy, Sacramento has sadness but little sincerity.

| Apr 14, 2025

The film comes off as “A Kinda, Sorta Pain”; a road trip film where only one passenger’s anxiety and behavior is interesting and if the other was just left on the side of the road nobody would miss him.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2025

Balancing the adventurous sweetness and the aged sourness happening in Sacramento is made possible by the chemistry between the Michaels of the picture.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2025

Humorous moments and sarcastic dialog help to keep this from diving into the bell jar, even when the story hits upon anxious issues that many can relate to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2025

It's a movie that thrives on the little things, and when you're playing in a world this focused on character and the individual needs of each human mind and heart, that's always a winning formula.

| Apr 11, 2025

Committed performances bring emotional complexity to this quirky character-driven saga about fractured friendships and arrested development that finds a fresh perspective amid familiar narrative territory.

| Apr 11, 2025

Not exactly "Thelma and Louise," this post-mumblecore road comedy directed and co-written by the actor Michael Angarano features a strong and quirky cast.

| Original Score: B | Apr 11, 2025

The film can be quite silly, except when it’s not, and I completely loved that tone.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2025