Evan Rachel Wood gives Daisy a sort of Goldie Hawn meets Liza Minnelli that is comical and endearing even as a story unfolds that isn't even remotely believable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 2, 2020

Suffers from a suffocating, inescapable earnestness that results in a nonsensical fairy tale that is neither magical nor likeable.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Romantic dramedy is touching but shallow; mature themes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2015

Barefoot follows an expected Pretty Woman-esque path, but it's quite charming along the way, and the oddball premise helps it feel fresh.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 18, 2014

There was once a time when director Andrew Fleming made fantastic films.

| Original Score: D | Feb 27, 2014

The gradual revelation that there's more to Daisy than meets the eye is no great surprise, but it does at least negate - too late! - some of the more troubling subtext.

| Feb 24, 2014

A soggy mess, one that takes a thoroughly simplistic look at mental illness and the people who suffer from it, delivering instead a romance and a road trip that are entirely unrealistic.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 23, 2014

Ultimately, Daisy is revealed to be sane, but she's still emotionally and socially stunted [...] and the romantic relationship that gradually blossoms between her and Jay feels disturbingly pedophilic.

| Original Score: 2.0/5 | Feb 21, 2014

It's an amalgam of tried-and-true themes minus any originality.

| Original Score: 4.8/10 | Feb 21, 2014

It's all thoroughly, intentionally lightweight, and the film's final 10 minutes is a rush of highly unlikely smiley face resolutions. Still, Wood somehow makes it work as well as it can.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 21, 2014

He's a rebellious trust-funder who specializes in strip clubs, one-night stands and gambling debts. She's a possibly schizophrenic mental patient raised in near-captivity by an abusive mother. How could these two kids not fall in love?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 21, 2014

Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood would have been better off doing a YouTube video together where they simply make goo-goo eyes at one another than co-starring in a featherweight trifle like "Barefoot".

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2014

A sorry throwback to sentimental 1960s movies -- the ones in which an offbeat woman repairs the soul of an emotionally clueless man.

| Original Score: C | Feb 20, 2014

The movie acts like screwball comedy, but there are no laughs as Daisy and Jay's connection lurches toward implausible romance.

| Feb 20, 2014

Out of the mouths of babes comes dribble, as often as wisdom-or, in the case of this movie's infantile heroine, drivel.

| Feb 20, 2014

This ill-advised romance from director Andrew Fleming is the sort of indie lark that nearly drowns in its own whimsy. Wade in at your own risk.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 20, 2014

While I am aware of the flaws in Barefoot... and sensitive to the obvious holes in the script, I still enjoyed the film, thanks largely to the charms of its two leads: Evan Rachel Wood and Scott Speedman.

| Original Score: B | Feb 20, 2014

"Barefoot" has the distinction of featuring what has to be the only female character no actress of any pedigree could ever make believable.

| Feb 20, 2014

[Barefoot], constructed of shards of other movies and a surfeit of bad ideas, is lacking in originality and positively perspires in its flailingly failed attempt to deliver quirky entertainment.

| Feb 20, 2014

"Barefoot" plays its romance straight and glossy, trying to pass off serious mental illness as a cutesy character quirk that needs only the balm of true love to resolve itself.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 20, 2014