It’s that blend of heartbreak and joy, profundity and absurdity that is the key to this enchanting movie’s magical spell.

For every laugh the family lets out, for each merry chance encounter they experience—like an oddly hysterical one with a Lance Armstrong-loving cyclist—there are tears shed in secret, cagey deals made in the shadows and the impending separation they inch closer to with every passing moment.

Tomris Laffly

RogerEbert.com

This movie’s power comes in the slow-burning revelations found through the straightaway desert roads and rolling lush hills, which amount to an emotionally wrenching crescendo.

Jake Kring-Schreifels

The Film Stage