What is the Metascore for The Motorcycle Diaries?

The Motorcycle Diaries has a Metascore of 75 out of 100 on Celluloid.

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The Motorcycle Diaries

Q: Is The Motorcycle Diaries worth watching?

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) has a Celluloid Score of 80%, averaged across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. It comes recommended overall. Directed by Walter Salles.

Directed by Walter Salles · 2004

Quick Verdict

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) has a 80% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

80%

Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

83% Critic Score

87% Audience

75 Metascore

★★★★☆ Letterboxd 4

7.7 IMDb /10

Runtime: 2h 6m
Cast: Gael García Bernal , Rodrigo de la Serna , Mía Maestro

Is The Motorcycle Diaries worth watching?

Yes — The Motorcycle Diaries earns a 80% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Salles' road movie humanizes an icon before ideology hardened, with Gael García Bernal luminous in the lead.
Celluloid Critics Consensus

Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.

What is The Motorcycle Diaries about?

Young Che Guevara and Alberto Granado travel across South America on a motorcycle, witnessing poverty that shapes revolutionary consciousness.

Critic Reviews

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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Review: A Mexican Classic

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Walter Salles's The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) endures as a defining biography landmark from Mexico, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.

Strongly recommended — a staple of its national cinema.