Below you’ll find short exerpts from Trucker reviews on the web, sourced where possible. This post will be updated reguarly as reviews become available.

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I attended a press screening on Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival. Trucker is great. Strong cast, powerful film. A bit on the predictable side but it still is solid — ProductionGirl IMDB User

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I also saw Trucker at Tribeca and I thought Michelle Monaghan and Nathan Fillion did amazing work on this film! Nathan was so incredibly hot, but not in a way he has ever been seen before. He was downright manly and had women in the audience gasping for air during one esp riveting scene. Michelle Monaghan kicked a** and should def get an Oscar. The audience was filled with people of all ages and somehow this movie seemed to touch a cord with virtually everyone. I saw 3 people who were sobbing so hard, they fled the theatre to recover. I was blown away, too. Amazing movie! Can’t wait to see it again when its released to the public!

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…(A performance like this shows you what [Michelle Monaghan] could have done in Gone Baby Gone if the Affleck Brothers had fleshed out her character with stuff from the novel. But then she would have blown Casey Affleck off the screen.) She doesn’t blow Nathan Fillion off the screen, and their chemistry is just what you’d expect from two people who know that only their scars can kiss. Her scenes with Jimmy Bennett are real and borderline shocking for all the anger and resentment that erupts in them, and … it’s totally believable. This is the kind of role for women that only seems to pop up in small films, personal films, or self-produced films. Diana is a rich, real, complicated part, and Monaghan inhabits every nasty, frustrated, hopeful moment of it. What makes this movie even more amazing: it was filmed in less than three weeks. — Horvendile

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Heart rending/warming pic in the tradition of the great seventies films like Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. — Chris Hawthorne

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Evoking a gritty Diane Lane, Michelle Monaghan convincingly portrays Diane Ford, a truck driver so disconnected she can’t even bring herself to call her estranged 11-year-old son (Jimmy Bennett) by his name.

Writer/director James Mottern hits the perfect tone with Trucker’s fadeout and takes Diane’s relationship with love-struck friend Runner (charming Nathan Fillion) to a surprising climax. Mottern also successfully captures the tired Riverside, Calif., setting and its encircling crossroads of interstates, although the abundant natural sunlight can lead to distracting haziness. — Woman on Film

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The premise (loser bonds with estranged kid) has been done again and again but director James Mottern and the cast do a fresh take on the old premise and make a very honest and emotional story with some great acting.

Chemistry is necessary for this picture to work and the cast has it. Romantic chemistry between Michelle Monaghan, who does a wonderful job carrying this film, and Nathan Fillion and mother/son chemistry between Monaghan and Jimmy Benett. I also enjoyed Mottern’s script and the cinematography. — Yorick Brown, IMDB User

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The movie is a small gem. Not only is it well shot but each frame, although short, is quite seamless in telling the story over a period of time. The main character, the trucker, played by Michele Monaghan, is honest and real. Regardless of whether you support the decisions that she has made with her life, she wears everything on her sleeve and is very much in touch with who she is.

There is absolutely an audience for this film outside of the film festival. I hope that somebody picks up the film. It would play well at the Angelica or the Quad. A heartfelt film that touched me. — Gotham Gal

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