The film’s title makes the impending peril obvious, but the buildup of the two main characters and their strained relationship gives form to the danger once it hits.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

The Smiths look deeper, questioning what strength and resilience really mean. They are attempting to survive the great outdoors, yes, but they are also dependent on it for sustenance.

| Dec 11, 2020

Smith and Smith demand nuanced performances from the central pair which results in a credible story but nothing that hasn't been done before.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2019

While not quite the journey the film aspires to be, Walking Out bares enough sustenance to justify the trip.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 10, 2018

Walking Out is a textbook "boy learning to become a man" movie, that attempts to make its tropes feel fresh by presenting them as self-seriously as possible.

| May 9, 2018

Both [Matt] Bomer and [Josh] Wiggins do a terrific job of making the panic and fear of an unfamiliar situation seem real, but it's the [Andrew] Smiths who really make the scenario and snow-clad surroundings come alive.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2018

This battle-for-survival-type drama treads familiar territory and offers some warmth but never seems quite as powerful as it should be.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 11, 2018

The second half is gripping. There's less time for talk, and the Smith brothers give us a superb sense of the fearful power of this landscape. Maybe that was the point all along: nature just keeps on giving and taking.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2018

Matt Bomer and Josh Wiggins' performances are moving in a slow-building way, buoyed by a gentle but affecting spirit. The same can be said of the film's direction.

| Apr 6, 2018

The characters, not the predicaments, are the heart and soul of the film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2018

When it does deliver, you can sense you are in the presence of something special.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2018

Walking Out is a perfectly serviceable, somewhat old-fashioned, robust drama, but not much more.

| Apr 4, 2018

The mountain backdrops are stunning, but the movie's real draw is its understanding of how children pick up more from their parents than their skeptical, self-pitying moms and dads ever imagine.

| Dec 14, 2017

This low budget film looks like a big budget film. The cinematography by Todd McMullen looks great, despite the fact that much of the shooting must have been done under difficult weather conditions in remote locations (mostly filmed in Montana).

| Original Score: B | Nov 16, 2017

Walking Out is a beautiful and moving feature with themes as old as the mountains they traverse but still relevant to all fathers and sons.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 9, 2017

Spare but incredibly sensitive wilderness survival story.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2017

... a plain and devastating story about family and the traditions that bind them, set against the majestic and inhospitable wild.

| Oct 24, 2017

"Like a snow-covered mountain, the film's deceptively simple surface conceals a complicated landscape underneath."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2017

Exactly the sort of well-crafted small film that should make us all grateful places like the Sundance Institute exist.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 20, 2017

Though narratively slight, Walking Out is an effective fable which brings together not just father and son but the modern and the ancient; part of the ongoing process of America discovering itself.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 19, 2017