such a lack of easy-read intentions regarding the Smiths' into-the-wild excursion tends to feel more like a complexity feature than an incoherence bug, however, and certainly doesn't take away from Bomer's prickly-to-proud performance
a sublimely beautiful tale of father-son bonding
a strong coming-of-age adventure that buries its vaguely biblical underpinnings beneath the heavy snows of a Jack London epic