Wasikowska strips herself down to basics to take on the tough role, and does a fine job, down to the handling of runaway bull camels.

| Dec 31, 2017

Wasikowska plays this wordless wanderer just right. That is, she makes her real.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 3, 2014

What emerges here is a woman of remarkable strength, and a movie that doesn't sugarcoat the dark side of her journey ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2014

To my mind, movies about watching nomads walk rank alongside movies about writers writing: The action is dull and endlessly repetitive, and most of the interesting stuff occurs in the mind's interior.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 2, 2014

Spectacular beauty that manages to be meditative and internal, and all the more illuminating for it.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 25, 2014

Curran's dreamy, semisurreal visuals, along with Mandy Walker's shimmering cinematography and Garth Stevenson's fluid score, help us see the world through Davidson's eyes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 25, 2014

[Curran] presents a vision of nature that shimmers with uncanny beauty and eerie solitude, transcended by Mia Wasikowska in one of the best performances of the year.

| Sep 25, 2014

Director John Curran has a sense for visual grandeur. The landscape is ablaze with heat, dust, flies and a staggering loneliness. When a snake slithers across Davidson as she sleeps, you can almost feel its cold against the skin.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2014

Ultimately the movie mimics the trajectory of the quest itself, pulling one toward its final destination, but across an arid expanse.

| Sep 25, 2014

It all looks appropriately unglamorous, with Wasikowska wearing a layer of grime, her hair matted as she swats at ever-present flies. But the setting is spectacular.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2014

Wasikowska here embodies Davidson with a mix of maniacal idealism and childish stubbornness that makes it seem her chin is perpetually stuck out at the world.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2014

The dry sand, the swirling wind, the striking sight of Davidson framed against the enormous expanse - all draw us in and don't let us go.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 25, 2014

More than a travelogue or a chronicle of self-willed solitude, director John Curran's gorgeous film version starring Mia Wasikowska betrays hardly a trace of Hollywood machinery in the storytelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2014

Davidson's journey appears meaningless, little more than a succession of pretty vistas for the dirt-caked trekker to squint at while having flashbacks of her childhood.

| Original Score: C | Sep 24, 2014

The memoir is strongly written, and I wish that the movie, directed by John Curran (Marion Nelson did the adaptation), had more excitement to it.

| Sep 22, 2014

Curran keeps the conflict muted without compensating with a more arresting and distinctive visual journey.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 19, 2014

Screenwriter Marion Nelson's overly expository dialogue reduces Robyn to an explorer-type daddy's girl we've met before, trudging diligently through the heat and dust, throwing off clichés.

| Sep 19, 2014

Both an incredible (and occasionally harrowing) adventure and an uncompromising, tough character study ...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 19, 2014

Tracks is an exhilarating adventure that opens up an unknown world to most of us and does it so well that we feel we're living it too.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 19, 2014

The desert trek in "Tracks" is as brutal as it is beautiful; the performance by Mia Wasikowska as raw as the reality. And the camels? If they don't steal your heart it must be stone-hinged.

| Sep 18, 2014