As a screenwriter, [Hunt] can be a bit obvious: It's the kind of film in which the son addresses his mother by her first name.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2015

Clever and warm-hearted.

| Original Score: B+ | May 7, 2015

This is an unusual movie, especially when you look back and realize how usual it seemed going in.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2015

While the subject matter in Ride is a bit rote, the performances and zing-a-minute dialogue keep this low budget picture above water.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2015

Hunt is past the breakers and alone on her own wave; as a filmmaker, she's lost sight of the shore.

| May 1, 2015

This is suitably engaging coming-of-middle-age material, but at nearly every turn, Hunt shines in one discipline while leaving much to be desired in another.

| Apr 30, 2015

As an instructional movie on the sport, "Ride" offers some useful tips, but beyond that, it feels like a slightly bizarre vanity project.

| Apr 30, 2015

Occasionally engaging, Ride suffers from being desperate to please, overwrought and overwritten with sitcom-style shenanigans backed up by a goofily chirpy score.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 30, 2015

Here's the thing about playing someone who's tiresome and unpleasant: You run the risk of creating a movie that's tiresome and unpleasant.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2015

There are good things in it, but Ms. Hunt is smart, observant and bright enough to make films that resonate with more freshness than this. Maybe next time.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2015

It's hard to miss the irony of Jackie counseling her son over how story endings should feel "surprising but inevitable" in a movie that's all inevitability and no surprise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2015

Hunt seems to confuse fast-talking with crackling banter, and the mother-son bond is way ickier than it is cute.

| Original Score: C | Apr 30, 2015

Technically, most of this proceeds smoothly; on a writing level, it's something of a mess.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 30, 2015

"Ride'' sounds a bit like a Lifetime movie, but in Hunt's capable hands it's a brisk, funny and touching comedy for boomers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 29, 2015

There's a wry sweetness to this picture ...

| Apr 28, 2015

Anyone sniffing that "Ride" looks like wish fulfillment for women of a certain age would do well to consider how many wretched films we sit through in the name of wish fulfillment for young men; a little equality in entertainment goes a long way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2015

If the film wins you over, it's in large part thanks to Hunt, a force to be reckoned with in front of the camera, if less so behind it.

| Apr 27, 2015

Ride is at its best and most authentic in its final chapter and an inconclusive resolution, but not so sure-footed in how it gets there.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2015

Hunt hurls herself headlong into the role of this stubborn, controlling, self-satisfied, intensely judgmental woman, making it all the more gratifying when her veneer of self-possession begins to crack and we begin to warm to her in spite of ourselves.

| Apr 27, 2015

Throughout, Helen Hunt obsequiously tends to her character's evolution as a parent through a flagrant indulgence of sitcom-ish scenarios.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 27, 2015