The Journey does little to elevate its limited premise...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2020

I suspect that even if the negotiations that brought about that peace were as dry as a bone and completely lacking any form of drama, it still would have been more interesting than this weirdly paced, strangely toned alternative history.

| May 11, 2020

The jaunty, estranged tone doesn't carry the level of importance as it should, instead playing like some banal, tangential escapade.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2019

A remarkable lesson that hypnotizes temporarily with the power of the word. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 2, 2019

Keeping his camera moving and pushing his luck with a couple of implausible plot points, Al-Daradji... [generates] a neorealist sense of atmosphere and suspense, while just about skirting sentimentality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2019

It's gripping and amusing, and it contains one of John Hurt's last screen appearances.

| Nov 30, 2018

It's fascinating, absorbing and ultimately amazingly feel good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2018

Nick Hamm's The Journey is a Sunday afternoon political drama. It's a laid-back, easy-going piece that cruises along (almost literally) on the performances of Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 2, 2018

What it does offer is two great actors working at the top of their game, feeding off each other's intensity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2018

The title of this film may seem weakly generic, but this is a sharply pointed drama that uses an allegorical structure to strong effect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2018

The Journey is here to give the world a shred of hope as it follows a fictitious account of Northern Ireland political archenemies finding a pleasant level of common ground

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2017

A film that shows that, in good debate, silences speak as much as words. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2017

Simplistic... despite the travelers' talent. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 4, 2017

This is a film that shows us that it is possible to make peace with opposing parties.

| Nov 26, 2017

Spall doesn't have the physical size to totally convince as Paisley but Meaney is terrific as McGuinness, and while the end result is both wordy and not always believable, I found it fascinating and deeply moving.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 12, 2017

The film references the facts of the Troubles, but primarily pursues the question of why-after 40 years of conflict, hatred, and recrimination-are they able to find compromise and cooperation at this particular moment?

| Oct 3, 2017

There is no political urgency, but the premise of the meeting is simplified in a complacent narrative with solvent protagonists. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 8, 2017

A film pleasing and suitable for all tastes, timid in its revisionist observations of history and full of a manipulative emotional load. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2017

One of the great political transitions has been re-imagined as a concise road trip in a pastiche of the sort of political play Peter Morgan might have written as a two-hander for the smaller stage. As a film, it doesn't open out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2017

The Journey offers moments of humor and waltzes of grace and anger in a film of an imagined journey.

| Aug 29, 2017