A convivial and well-shot musical that forms a narrative and articulates the variable emotions of its characters through upbeat, crowd-pleasing pop songs to varying degrees of success.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2018

By the time you get to the saccharine finale, it's turned into The X Factor, but with kilts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 6, 2018

This is bright, breezy and charming entertainment at its best, even if you're not a mad fan of the musical genre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 8, 2017

To say you don't like an upbeat British film this unpretentiously nice is like saying you don't like tea and biscuits.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2017

It's pleasant. It will provoke a smile. Take your grandma

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 6, 2014

Lovers of musicals and/or The Proclaimers may find themselves overlooking the flaws and enjoying this film a lot more than me.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 5, 2014

Fans of The Proclaimers will obviously eat this up while non-fans will appreciate the dramatic salt sprinkled over the musical sweetness that keeps this from becoming twee.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2014

There are sentimental elements, and not all the songs are top-drawer, but despite that the unlikely idea of having characters burst into song as they walk down the street or drink in a pub worked for me.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 23, 2014

While it won't match ABBA's slam dunk success with Mamma Mia!, this irrepressibly appealing jukebox musical... will still find a receptive audience 'round these here parts.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2014

The flash mob finale, with what looks like 500 dancing Edinburghers, is about the most fun I've had in a cinema this year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 21, 2014

A wee bit twee and syrupy, this jaunty Scottish musical works hard to take you from misery to happiness all to the upbeat sound of The Proclaimers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2014

Thankfully more pleasing than patronising, Sunshine on Leith works because it's not universal; while tidied up, it's still peculiar to a place and people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2014

There is nothing quite as alarming as sitting down to a film and only then discovering it's a musical, to say nothing of the confusion that comes with the realisation it's comprised entirely of Proclaimers songs.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2014

I feel a bit mean not to embrace Stephen Greenhorn's adaptation of his good hearted stage musical, but the film plods instead of soars, despite its genuine characters and heartfelt performances

| May 18, 2014

It starts out so fabulously in Afghanistan in this armoured vehicle and these boys just start spontaneously singing Sky Takes the Soul and I went, oh, this is so unexpected and beautiful.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2014

[Fletcher's] adaptation of the hit stage play is to Scottish audiences as Mamma Mia! is to The Me Generation and and Rock of Ages is to Gen X-ers - a bigscreen jukebox jam very loosely held together by a hoary plotline as old as cinema itself.

| Apr 6, 2014

Despite the low-budget-defying gloss (Edinburgh really does look fabulous), the gritty honesty of the Reid brothers' songs remains intact and the superb cast give their stirring singalong anthems real emotional clout.

| Feb 1, 2014

...the best jukebox musical to come around in ages...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 14, 2013

Fletcher gets good performances from a game cast but I wouldn't give you half a sixpence for his skills as a musical impresario.

| Oct 7, 2013

I shed a tear within the first 10 minutes, and spent the rest of the movie beaming like a gibbering, love-struck fool.

| Oct 6, 2013