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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The Film StageRory O'ConnorThe Film StageRory O'ConnorIt all comes together beautifully, a film to stimulate curious corners of the mind and adventurous parts of the spirit.
- 90Screen DailyJonathan RomneyScreen DailyJonathan RomneyA hypnotic and inventive Asian odyssey ... The viewer may not know exactly where Gomes and his characters are headed, but the journey is pursued with wit, imagination and intelligence, and delivers oblique insights about the way we see the world and history.
- 90VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangBut for anyone feeling a pessimism creeping in like slow poison and taking the edge off any appetite for adventure, Portuguese singularity Miguel Gomes comes like a comet across the Cannes competition with “Grand Tour,” an enchanting, enlivening, era-spanning, continent-crossing travelogue that runs the very serious risk of infecting you with the antidote: a potent dose of wanderlust-for-life.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is elegant, eccentric and needs some time to be indulged. ... And yes, it is six parts beguiling to one part exasperating. But ... it leaves you with a gentle, bemused smile on your face.
- 78The Film VerdictDeborah YoungThe Film VerdictDeborah YoungGomes is a director poised between ironic narrative and experimentalism pure and simple, and his films (often described as strange, lyrical and hypnotizing) divide audiences into the visionaries and the unconvinced.
- 70TheWrapChase HutchinsonTheWrapChase HutchinsonIt is a wholly uncompromising experience that dances with mirth and melancholy. Proving to be evocative in one moment and unrelentingly exhausting in the next, it’s as gorgeous to behold visually as it is hard to completely embrace thematically. And yet, if you abandon yourself to it by the end as one character says, you can catch glimpses of something spectacularly sublime in the vast journey that it takes on.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichBut for all the luminous beauty of its images, "Grand Tour" sorely lacks a current strong enough to sustain the thoughts that flow between them, compelling as some of those thoughts may be.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerFans of Gomes’ breakthrough 2012 feature, Tabu, will find much to love here as well, and in terms of craft his latest offers some truly beguiling moments. But anyone looking for a good story, or characters to get hooked on, may find themselves admiring the scenery without ever relishing it.