Walkabout

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Roeg and his scenarist Edward Bond (BlowUp) aim for the mind and miss wildly. Their preachy, anti-intellectual Natural Mannerisms are neither convincing nor new.

Entertainment Weekly by Chris Nashawaty

Nicolas Roeg’s art-house adventure is lyrical and intoxicating.

Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez

Roeg 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.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

A strange, vivid tale of two British schoolchildren stranded in the deserts of the outback.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

For 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.

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Roeg’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.

Empire by Kim Newman

It's a deep film, but also elusive, accepting that some mysteries can never be solved.

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

Roeg's points about the contrasts between noble savages and civilized effetes don't stand up terribly well over time.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Walkabout is a superb work of storytelling and its material is effortlessly fascinating.