It evokes on me a strange liberating sensation that captures me and, above all, leaves a trail of enormous visual beauty with the panoramas shown during the reconstruction of Ernesto Guevara's journey. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 9, 2024

The Motorcycle Diaries takes you along on a meandering road trip through South America with a young Che Guevara, the Marxist revolutionary.

| Aug 18, 2022

A breathtaking road trip movie across South America. A coming of age & consciousness story carried by a strong performance from Bernal.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 15, 2021

Walter Salles's well-observed movie downplays politics for humanism. It's a picturesque tale that, hobbled by its episodic structure, never achieves full steam.

| Mar 13, 2018

This is radical chic without the radicalism, seemingly geared toward people who find Guevara vaguely admirable but would be turned off by talk of class struggle and revolution.

| Mar 6, 2018

Subtly political biopic won't interest most teens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 15, 2010

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 27, 2007

Has a huge heart.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 7, 2007

A thought-provoking film, grounded in breathtaking scenery and engaging performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 27, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The episodic nature of the road movie weakens the film's momentum, but the longer sequences maintain sufficient interest to keep the viewer involved.

| Sep 16, 2005

For most of the viewers, regardless of their political beliefs, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES is a journey worth taking.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 29, 2005

This is the kind of movie that a serious student of the art of filmmaking will relish.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 17, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2005

In a time when so many 'biopics' are predictable love-fests, it's great to see a film that digs back into a famous person's youth and explains HOW he became so influential.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 3, 2005

The two leads are strong; but while the trip may have substantially moved the two travelers, the film doesn't move much until the last half-hour.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2005

As a movie, The Motorcycle Diaries is beautiful, with strong acting, breathtaking location cinematography and a vibrant story. As history, it is more dubious.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 18, 2005

The understated drama frequently takes a backseat to magnificent scenery, lusciously photographed by cinematographer Eric Gautier.

| Feb 11, 2005

Many of the people they meet are unremarkable. In fact, the two main characters aren't all that interesting, either.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 28, 2005

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 15, 2005