Roeg successfully conjures up a tale that is as dazzling as the shimmering landscape against which it is set.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 13, 2024

One of cinema’s great mood pieces, a complex, multilayered work that relies as much on its visuals and sound schemes as on plot and characterization.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 16, 2023

Somehow both timeless and yet distinctly a film that could only have been made in its time, Walkabout captures strange, captivating beauty and the memory of a world gone by, reassembled for our viewing pleasure.

| Sep 13, 2023

The cinematography is stunning, as one would expect given Roeg’s background, and conveys the vastness of the landscape even as the drama remains small and intimate.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 10, 2022

…Walkabout is still a unique film that pulls together the nihilism of Zabriskie Point and Easy Rider, and then fashions an atavistic adventure that was somehow throught to be perfect fodder for British kids…

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2022

...seems to take place somewhere between a pleasant dream and a nightmare.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 17, 2021

There is always this feeling that Roeg, the cameraman for Fahrenheit 451 and Far from the Madding Crowd has a positive and original talent bursting to be developed. It's just a case of what that talent is going to find to say.

| Feb 11, 2020

Roeg's training as a cinematographer brings both advantages and hazards.

| Feb 11, 2020

The film is rich enough, especially at a second look, to make you forget the flaws. You are left with the impression of a fresh, powerful and humane imagination.

| Feb 11, 2020

What makes the film triumph over this literalness is another kind of intensity which one feels, since it's a filmmaker's, is all Roeg's.

| Feb 11, 2020

A towering work, painted from a palette of feelings and instincts words cannot do justice to.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 31, 2020

The film is a forced exposition more than a question, where the solution is found in casting white men as the evil ones and indigenous peoples as too angelical. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 30, 2019

...one of the great art house freak-outs of the 1970s.

| Nov 26, 2018

Aim and Misfire.

| Feb 8, 2018

Walkabout has a good script by Edward Bond, and is directed and stunningly photographed by Nicolas Roeg.

| Oct 19, 2016

Beautifully done, I think, with a completely appropriate and consistent style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 9, 2014

[VIDEO] "Walkabout" is a poetic film that incorporates a collective subconscious of humanist values.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 14, 2011

A unique survival film, that has become a cult favorite.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 1, 2010

Peeling colonialism, awakening and the Dawn of Man are fiercely indicated in Roeg's wondrous fever

| Mar 1, 2010

The overt symbolism hampers a subject and approach that could have led to a sublime result.

| Original Score: 42/100 | Feb 26, 2010