The growing friendship between Edie and Jonny has an understated but very genuine warmth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 6, 2019

Something tells me a documentary on Hancock simply navigating the rigors of "Edie," as well as acting it to the fullest, might have been more readily inspiring.

| Sep 5, 2019

The story in "Edie" may get sidetracked from time to time, but Hancock never does, with a focus every bit the equal of her character's, if not more so.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2019

Hancock is wasted here, as are the meaty dramatic threads that Elizabeth O'Halloran's formulaic screenplay never bothers to pull.

| Sep 5, 2019

The only thing that does not disappoint is the ravishing and varied landscape, even if it is shot a bit like a tourist board advertisement.

| Sep 4, 2019

Debbie Wiseman's eager and overemotional score sometimes undermines the actors' more quiet work. But the uplifting "Edie" is worthy of your time, mostly thanks to Hancock and Scotland's natural beauty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2019

It's a perfectly viable set-up, but the film never explores it in emotionally satisfying fashion.

| Sep 3, 2019

Within its own modest goals, Edie achieves its purpose, to deliver an uncontroversial message...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2018

In common with its difficult protagonist and her hardscrabble holiday, director Simon Hunter's film is pleasingly gritty, even in moments of levity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2018

With its drab, overpowering score, this tedious drama is nearly as gruelling as the trek up Scotland's Suilven...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2018

An uplifting character study that's definitely worth a look.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2018

A committed performance from the redoubtable stage and screen veteran Sheila Hancock drives the final third of this wilderness drama into sublime places.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2018

The mere concept of Hancock, as the newly liberated widow of the title, clambering around Scottish mountainsides might be enough to sustain a trailer, but it doesn't go the distance here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2018

I desperately wanted to love Edie, and I did give it every chance, I think, but I just could not love it as I wished.

| May 24, 2018

This well-meaning film basically retreads the old ideas about the old person who in death's encroaching shadow has one last glorious life-affirming adventure...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 24, 2018

The filmmakers show us both the cost and the rewards for the venerable mountaineer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2018

It's by no means perfect but any film that inspires 80-year-olds to climb a mountain - or at least believe they still can - can only be a good thing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2018

Fleeting charm and pretty packaging will leave you partially satisfied but later craving a bolder film that puts its battle-worn title character to better use.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2018