Metacritic Movie Ratings
The Way Back Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterStephen Farber

  Beyond its visual splendors, however, the film achieves searing moral power.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  It's also filled with scenes of extraordinary survival challenges. But the result is oddly impersonal and undifferentiated.

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• 63

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  The Way Back, with its epic story and spectacularly bleak setting, invites comparisons with "Laurence of Arabia" and "Dr. Zhivago." It's awash in vast, unforgiving terrain. So it got the setting right, but not necessarily the substance.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Most of those hardships are familiar to movie lovers; that's a reductionist view of a serious and ambitious production, but it is, after all, a movie on a screen. (And a movie with a dreadfully clumsy ending.)

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