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Metascore®58 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Burt and Verona are two characters rarely seen in the movies: thirtysomething, educated, healthy, self-employed, gentle, thoughtful, whimsical, not neurotic and really truly in love. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    A movie with memorable and engaging performances. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Though Away We Go lacks the screwball unpredictability of something like "Flirting With Disaster," it compensates with a unexpected depth of feeling, a novelist’s (or memoirist’s) sense of detail, and a panoramic view of what home means. Read full review

  • 75
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    Away We Go is not as dramatically wrenching as "Revolutionary Road," but it's unquestionably more enjoyable. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    A gilded entry in the cinema du quirk. It's a movie that invites you, all too often, to feel superior to the people on screen. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    A self-satisfied film about insecure people, a quirky and episodic comic drama that squanders its genuine assets and ends up not as special as it tries to be. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Does it sound as if I hate this movie? Don't be silly. But don't be fooled. This movie does not like you. Read full review

  • 40
    Time | Richard Corliss

    A bloated, criminally judgmental borderline-comedy. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    The road-trippers of Away We Go harbor no discernible ambitions whatsoever, which may make them true to Gen-Y life, but also renders them fatally uninteresting. For all the ground they cover geographically, dramatically their velocity remains zero. Mendes, too, seems to have trouble getting on board with the underachieving set. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    Emerges as an oddly sour, unappealing road-trip scenario. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.4 out of 5

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