The Way beautifully weaves together the spiritual, tangible, and mundane aspects of life's journey .

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Powerful. Profound. Personally transformative. Make your own pilgrimage to see The Way.

| Nov 26, 2019

"The Way" offers an array of life-affirming spiritual messages that will resonate with filmgoers of different faiths and walks of life.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2018

... presents the intensely faith-filled practice of pilgrimage in a way that is not heavy-handed or saccharine.

| Mar 21, 2018

Full Review | Jan 30, 2018

Emilio Estevez and father Martin Sheen may have made this heartwarming pilgrimage movie with troubled brother/son Charlie in mind-in hopes that he'd see the need for a thorough soul-cleansing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2016

Emilio Estevez directs a road-trip movie with a different twist: The characters are all walking. 'The Way' refers to the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, a Catholic pilgrim's journey that reaches 550 miles across France and northern Spain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2014

Emilio Estevez hasn't just been making wine lately. His film The Way, an inspirational drama, is a thoughtful travel pic worth seeing.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 11, 2013

Martin Sheen shines in a beautifully made, unforced tale of spiritual reawakening and self-discovery that is as life-affirming as it is entertaining.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 30, 2012

The Way is inspiring, cathartic, poetic, hopeful, and makes you want to throw on a backpack, start walking and find yourself.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 29, 2012

The Way is a serene experience that prefers to take you by the hand rather than drag you by the foot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 26, 2012

Estevez and Sheen combine in a touching father-son tale of grief and reconciliation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 23, 2012

It's not quite a road movie nor a real redemption story, nor a buddy movie; it's a diary where the journey is more important than the getting to the destination

| Apr 20, 2012

Estevez has made a gentle and immensely likeable film that flows naturally, whose heart comes from the solid, grounding performance by his father Martin Sheen

| Apr 20, 2012

The Way is a worthy effort and a sign that Estevez may yet emerge as an excellent filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 11, 2012

Between the sprightly soundtrack, the sensational on-location shoot, the anchoring performance by Sheen, and the methodological freedom permitted so that Avery's pilgrimage can naturally take its course, The Way immerses body and soul.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 4, 2012

Smartly written and directed with a master filmmaker's eye, "The Way" is one of those films you'll want to see again and again.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2011

The film does make a nice travelogue as Tom walks The Way and takes in the scenery. It's not a badly made film but it does aim for very low hanging sentimental fruit.

| Dec 16, 2011

It's the kind of mushy pic you might be inspired to walk out on.

| Original Score: C | Nov 20, 2011

This is a quiet, warm film that some will find actually spiritual.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 9, 2011