Metacritic reviews

Although occasionally both overwritten and overly symbolic, tale carries a satisfying emotional charge.

Well-made, well-acted but ultimately enervating, this is a respectable effort from Freundlich.

A small story, a monodrama with a hero but no antagonists.

The gorgeous Crudup is talented, but this charming asshole (more asshole than charming) is old hat for him, little more than another of the blank-eyed-loser-on-a-spiritual-quest roles in which he's been trafficking lately.

Crudup is the best navigator a road movie like World Traveler can have, but even he can't single-handedly transport these goods from nowhere to somewhere.

Freundlich's postmodern road movie contains several sharply observed scenes but doesn't really add up to much.

Crudup is about as effective as anyone could be in the dreary World Traveler, but he can't keep this shallow, pretentious film from wallowing in banality and staggering self-indulgence.

Dreary movie.

Anemic, pretentious.

It's hard to remember a movie that has asked us to care, without giving us reason to, about a character who is so thoroughly and relentlessly a prick.