The movie looks like far more than a million dollars and it offers the kind of smart, picaresque good time you get from books like "The Reivers" and "Huckleberry Finn" and movies like "Bronco Billy" and "Bonnie and Clyde."
75
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
San Francisco ChronicleWalter Addiego
A heartfelt effort, if at times a bit heavy-handed.
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
Solidly old-fashioned entertainment.
70
VarietyJustin Chang
VarietyJustin Chang
A frequently mesmerizing if exceedingly strange coming-of-age odyssey.
The mix of rollicking, family-friendly action and backwoods mysticism is odd, as is the story's progress from larky escapades to increasingly grim consequences, and Craven never quite manages to make it all seem a smoothly integrated piece.
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Jay Craven's stilted adaptation of a novel by Howard Frank Mosher lacks the urgency, the poetry, or the feeling for period that might have brought the material to life, while the cast seems to be largely squandered.