The Outrun

In its efforts to be lyrical, sometimes it feels like bad poetry... The storytelling style got in the way, but [Saoirse Ronan's] performance was fantastic.

The movie tells an admirable and moving story about a woman coming through her troubles, but it conveys no sense of creative or emotional risk.

It’s not always easy to watch, and it’s certainly not a lot of fun. But it is impressive, and that’s what carries it.

"The Outrun" is [Ronan's] symphony, and she conducts it with an unwaveringly steady hand, right down to the very last note.

Ronan can’t save The Outrun from its limitations as a drama, or from its worst stack-the-deck instincts. But she does lift this film up and infuse the storytelling with a genuine sense of what it means to try living one day at a time.

The drama forces the audience to see the ugliness of addiction, even when coiled in the body of a beautiful, intelligent young woman. Rona’s one-day-at-a-time battle against drink is gladiatorial, as is Ronan’s performance.

Saoirse Ronan delivers an outstanding performance in this gentle and sincere drama about addiction. [Full Review in Spanish]

What brings the movie to that top tier are the raw honesty of the script, by Fingscheidt and Amy Liptrot — on whose memoir it’s based — and the full-tilt fearlessness that actor Saoirse Ronan applies to the central role.

An unfocused cluster of fragmented images that left me feeling as a viewer feeling disconnected and dissociative rather than invested in the character and her journey.

Ronan is her usually brilliant self but the movie is too much of a been there done that type of thing.