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DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT

Gus Van Sant United States, 2018
A film whose title perfectly encapsulates its gentle, crass jokiness—a tone that comes as a relief considering the severity of the subject matter. . . . With its inspirational arc and straightforward visual style, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is one of Van Sant’s more conventional movies, and yet it’s weirdly the best showcase for his gifts in a while: He plays the notes, and the result is music.
July 13, 2018
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Though the director and his sterling cast seem to get all the biographical details right, the soul is somehow missing. It’s a movie predicated on epiphanies, artificially structured to push Callahan toward self-understanding. But if you’re not going to contend with Callahan’s fraught, frequently abrasive sense of humor—the substance of who he was—what’s the point of making a movie about him?
July 12, 2018
The New York Times
If you’ve ever hung out with an incorrigible drunk, then you’ll immediately appreciate the dramatic beats of “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot,” [a] cleverly volatile, infuriatingly random take on the disabled alcoholic cartoonist John Callahan. Self-pitying or smug, jaunty or crestfallen, callous or contrite, the movie’s fitful tone is fully yoked to Joaquin Phoenix’s sodden-to-sober lead performance.
July 11, 2018
The cartoons are treasured for their crudeness, their gleeful lack of polish, which might be a definition of Phoenix himself. One of our most unpredictable actors, baroque, tortured, menacing, sometimes repellent and thrilling at the same time, he is never at ease in his skin and often makes us uneasy in our own.
July 3, 2018
Van Sant’s film is fascinating for many reasons. To begin with, there’s the concept. . . . There’s an understated experimentation at play in “Don’t Worry”: its tonal messiness, and its matter-of-fact scene-to-scene ellipses, become chief virtues in what feels at times like a refreshing response to traditional triumphal arcs.
February 22, 2018
The film is disarming for its sincerity, unalloyed in its positive thinking but unafraid of showing the gruesome details of alcoholism and denial to back up its bromides.
February 20, 2018