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Movie Overview
Cast
• Billy Crudup
• Julianne Moore
• Karen Allen
Director
• Bart Freundlich
MPAA Rating
R - language and some sexuality
World Traveler (2002)

REVIEWS
NEWS
INTERVIEWS
OTHER
OFCS Rating: 31% Rotten
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C
"The only reason for watching such a shallow and worn drama is because of Crudup's subtle performance."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2/4
"The film's needlessly opaque intro takes its doe-eyed Crudup out of pre-9/11 New York and onto a cross-country road trip of the Homeric kind."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

D
"A pretty but empty portrait of a vacuous character...the picture doesn't get very far or go very deep."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

"A first-class road movie that proves you can run away from home, but your ego and all your problems go with you."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

1.5/4
"It believes it's revealing some great human truths, when, in reality, it's churning ground that has long passed the point of being fertile."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3/5
"Well-shot drama features great work from Billy Crudup and Julianne Moore -- and an infuriating script from director Bart Freundlich."  Netflix  James Rocchi

D+
"But buying into sham truths and routine "indie" filmmaking, Freundlich has made just another safe movie. It's not horrible, just horribly mediocre."  Matinee Magazine  Jeremiah Kipp

3/4
"Whatever complaints I might have, I'd take [its] earnest errors and hard-won rewards over the bombastic self-glorification of other feel-good fiascos like Antwone Fisher or The Emperor's Club any time."  MovieMartyr.com  Jeremy Heilman

C-
"Somewhere inside the mess that is World Traveler, there is a mediocre movie trying to get out."  Countingdown.com  Larry Carroll

2/5
"Cal is an unpleasantly shallow and immature character with whom to spend 110 claustrophobic minutes."  TV Guide's Movie Guide  Maitland McDonagh

"God bless Crudup and his aversion to taking the easy Hollywood road and cashing in on his movie-star gorgeousness."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

1.5/4
"A poky and pseudo-serious exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

C+
Read review  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

Read review  Wolf Entertainment Guide  William Wolf
OFCS Rating: 31% Rotten
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