Captain Fantastic's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
The movie really belongs to Mortensen, who allows Ben to be exasperating, arrogant and impatient but also warm, loving and caring. He?s a tough but adoring father, a grieving widower and an angry defender of his wife?s final wishes, and Mortensen plays all these notes and more with subtlety and grace.
Variety
Ross doesn?t run from the resulting sentimentality the way so many other directors do; nor does he undercut it with irony or sarcasm as has become the regrettable tendency in independent cinema.
Cinemanía
We are facing a manual of the Super Boy Scout. Similar to 'The Revenant' and varnish Sundance sea of flattering.
Fotogramas
Its formal postulates can be somewhat impersonal and the scheme of road movie with dysfunctional family, the 'Little Miss Sunshine', seems already somewhat worn.
The Hollywood Reporter
Especially refreshing, even radical, is its sympathy for characters who read for pleasure and value rigorous thought. Unfortunately, by the end, it?s gone as mushy and ragged as a homespun hemp blanket.
The Playlist
'Captain Fantastic' uses bleak but gentle comedy to pinpoint the variety of ways we wrestle with grief, but the film undermines Mortensen's performance and its own thematic ambitions by presenting the character as little more than an idealized fantasy figure.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote