Barry Hertz It's bold, captivating cinema, with a soundtrack that threatens to never leave your head.

Adam Graham At nearly three hours, "American Honey" is the most indulgent movie of the year, and the one in most need of a serious trim. It makes its point early on and then keeps repeating it until the honey turns sour.

Matthew Lickona Writer-director Andrea Arnold artfully sets love against money and manages one of the best endings in recent memory.

Jim Slotek Too long by at least an hour, American Honey is a movie that would have had more to say if it said less. It is ultimately like a Jim Jarmusch movie without a sense of humour.

Colin Covert In the hands of British writer/director Andrea Arnold, one of the most talented women making movies today, the film has a lusty primal quality that is threatening and hard to resist.

Peter Howell More than the sum of its shaky-cam parts.

Cary Darling But, even at its most obvious and ham-fisted, American Honey remains compelling, largely for Arnold's vividly verit�, documentary-like cinematic style and a career-launching performance by Texan Sasha Lane who has never acted in a film before this.

Calvin Wilson Some may consider "American Honey" too long and more than a bit repetitive. But Arnold's not after a mere snapshot. Her aim is nothing less than a mural of contemporary American life.

Bill Goodykoontz "American Honey" is a remarkable movie, which doesn't mean it's perfect - its imperfections, in fact, are what help make it so urgent, so vital, so real.