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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondA grueling, stunningly photographed story.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberBeyond its visual splendors, however, the film achieves searing moral power.
- 75Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreAn entertaining old-fashioned prison escape movie with a touch of the epic about it.
- 70MovielineMovielineWeir's artisan's sureness grants a bewitching calm - his trademark ambience - to this harrowing tale.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere is an irony here. The film exhibits an admirable determination to do justice to a real story, but the story's not real.
- 60EmpireDavid HughesEmpireDavid HughesWeir couldn't make a boring film if his life depended on it, and for any other director The Way Back would be laudable. It's good, but from this director we have come to expect great.
- In its best moments is as big as a movie can be, as big as life itself.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe Way Back then takes its time, creeping through gorgeous locations in Bulgaria, Morocco and Pakistan, and basically feeling like a two-hour-plus version of the desert scene from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
- 50Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanHis (Weir) hardship drama is stolidly old-fashioned, more extreme travelogue than exercise in visceral horror.