The New York Times by Natalia Winkelman

Beauty is pleasurable, but the film’s use of evocative visuals to focus on storytelling more broadly is what makes it a quiet knockout.

Los Angeles Times by Tim Grierson

The characters’ dilemma may, ultimately, be meaningless set against the ebbs and flows of history, but Gomes, who won the directing prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, invests it with such elegance that it becomes nearly mythic: a touching fable of cowardice and devotion with tragic undertones. The scenes may be dreamlike, but they’re our shared dream of being swept away by the movies.

The Irish Times by Tara Brady

It is a film of many enchantments.

The Film Stage by Rory O'Connor

It all comes together beautifully, a film to stimulate curious corners of the mind and adventurous parts of the spirit.

Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney

A 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.

Variety by Jessica Kiang

But 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.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Bilge Ebiri

The film returns us to a childlike gaze, marveling at a world alive with possibility, where every sight lives on a continuum of meaning.

The New Yorker by Justin Chang

It moves between cities and centuries, and teasingly undermines the relationship between sound and image, with a sly and miraculous fluidity.

Slant Magazine by Brad Hanford

If Tabu locates the colonial mindset in madness and obsession, Grand Tour does so in cowardice and obliviousness.

The A.V. Club by Alex Lei

Gomes picks apart an imagined past by experiencing its present, at the same time sharply unpacking the screwball comedy by separating the running man and the pursuing woman.