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Incredible Journeynew
Sean Penn and Emile Hirsch create a masterpiece with Into the Wild.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-25-2007 |
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'Into the Wild': Northern Exposurenew
Sean Penn traces Emory University student's journey.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-04-2007 |
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'Into the Wild': The Long Goodbyenew
Sean Penn gives Chris McCandless one last embrace.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-03-2007 |
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'Into the Wild': Force of Naturenew
Penn's previous movies as a director have been unfailingly pretentious, but Into the Wild is altogether different, a unified, long-haul work that is rarely caught straining for effect.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
10-02-2007 |
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Sean Penn Redeems Himselfnew
I'm greatly relieved to report that Into the Wild, Penn's fourth behind-the-camera effort, feels like something of a breakthrough for the recently stagnating genius.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Beans |
10-01-2007 |
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'Into the Wid,' Out with the Feelingnew
Sean Penn's overwrought direction elbows the feeling right out of adventure story Into the Wild.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
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Sean Penn Journeys 'Into the Wild'new
To these eyes, Into the Wild is an unusually soulful and poetic movie that crystallizes Christopher McCandless as the glittering enigma he was, that allows us to decide for ourselves whether he was the spiritual son of Thoreau, Tolstoy and John Muir, or the boy most likely to become Theodore Kaczynski.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
09-24-2007 |
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Sean Penn Roughs It With 'Into the Wild'
Sean Penn directs this thoroughly satisfying account of Christopher McCandless's wilderness journeys that Jon Krakauer eloquently brought to light in his 1996 best-selling book.
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