85
Metascore
18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWalkabout is a superb work of storytelling and its material is effortlessly fascinating.
- 100The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsRoeg’s film contrasts Western corruption with native goodness, but it’s naïve by design, and ultimately concerned more with the way all innocence passes than with the politics and particulars of any single part of the world.
- 100EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanIt's a deep film, but also elusive, accepting that some mysteries can never be solved.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyNicolas Roeg’s art-house adventure is lyrical and intoxicating.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceA richly picturesque, multi-leveled film. [20 May 1971, p.66]
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliFor the most part, Walkabout is an involving, occasionally hypnotic, motion picture. Some of the photography, including images of the outback and its denizens, is spectacular.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannA strange, vivid tale of two British schoolchildren stranded in the deserts of the outback.
- 75Slant MagazineEd GonzalezSlant MagazineEd GonzalezRoeg shoots every figure in the film like an instructional visual subject, and it levels the philosophical playing field—whether man, or ant, or echidna, or gnarled tree stump, they’re all fodder for the experimental interplay of light, shadow, and space.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenRoeg's points about the contrasts between noble savages and civilized effetes don't stand up terribly well over time.