A triumphantly visual movie, The Loneliest Planet develops an interplay between freedom and confinement.

| May 3, 2016

You have to see The Loneliest Planet, for it is one of those works that prepares you for life, that make you wary, alive and responsible, and which ... well, you'll never forget it.

| Jun 17, 2013

A relationship drama as radically bifurcated as Tropical Malady and as trenchantly insightful as Everyone Else.

| Nov 9, 2012

You hope for these characters, and that hope carries the film.

| Original Score: B | Nov 9, 2012

Though it's not without virtues, "The Loneliest Planet" may try the patience of even the most dedicated lovers of art film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 2, 2012

Loktev has written and directed with a haunting emphasis on the shortcomings of some interpersonal communication.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 1, 2012

I can't deny that her scheme is dramatically effective, though I left the movie more conscious of the scheme than the drama.

| Nov 1, 2012

All of this grows tiresome.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 1, 2012

The Loneliest Planet is not a perfect work of art, but it gets at something powerful: the way that life can turn us around in a flash, without warning.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 26, 2012

Unfortunately, Loktev's dry approach to establishing the couple's relationship means its abrupt collapse causes little emotional impact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2012

Shot on location by cinematographer Inti Briones, "Planet" is a piece of art even without Bernal and Furstenberg, who are like moving portraits of themselves in this film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2012

It is gripping and haunting, but also coy and elusive.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 25, 2012

Though the film moves as slowly as its hikers, it demands, and deserves, to be watched closely.

| Oct 25, 2012

The Loneliest Planet does have a quiet power, which is amplified by the movie's rugged landscape.

| Oct 25, 2012

The film delivers in unexpected ways, and then ponders what it means.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2012

In extending a short story to feature length without embellishing it-at least in the plotting-Loktev suffuses the film with the kind of intimate, microscopic detail and observation that's more common to literature than cinema.

| Original Score: A | Oct 25, 2012

Every scene shift contributes vital information about what it means to guide or be guided over foreign territory, both emotional and physical.

| Original Score: A | Oct 24, 2012

The Loneliest Planet was made with an intoxicating and precise faith in the ability of images to convey feelings that words would be too clumsy and blunt to appropriately delineate.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Oct 24, 2012

Within a scantily plotted, novella-style narrative (the movie is an adaptation of a short story by Tom Bissell), single shots become story events that mere mention would spoil.

| Oct 24, 2012

If you are willing to subject yourself to an experience that is outside the norm of what a traditional movie is supposed to do, then you may come away with fertile soil for some fruitful discussion.

| Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2012