The film avoids simple definition as comedy or tragedy, and concludes with moments of undeniable poetic elation.

| Mar 20, 2025

Writer-Director Nora Fingscheidt ("System Crasher") has softened a harsh tale of alcoholism with beautiful scenery and tales of magical creatures. Saoirse Ronan turns in her second outstanding performance of 2024, matching her turn in "Blitz".

| Original Score: B | Feb 17, 2025

...compelling subject matter that’s employed to progressively tiresome (and, eventually, interminable) effect...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 15, 2025

There’s a few nice performances in the movie, but it runs on the lead’s energy and audacity to peel back the layers of a complicated character without a single showy scene.

| Dec 29, 2024

An incredible performance by Saorise Ronan revealing how an alcoholic’s recovery is influenced by a landscape.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 26, 2024

The Irish actor gives a full-body performance as a young woman recovering from addiction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

You can’t take your eyes off of Ronan. She’s a beacon of light in a dark passage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 7, 2024

That third act is probably the slowest, but it's also the most emotionally resonant. And you can't go wrong when Ronan is delivering one of her most three-dimensional performances amidst those ebbs and flows.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 6, 2024

Much of The Outrun is boilerplate recovery flick, and the ending — which invokes Rona's comments about feeling like she can control the weather — is a bit pat. It's really the unique setting and another powerhouse performance by Ronan that elevate it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2024

At its core, The Outrun is a potent neo-realist drama—compassionate, intimate, and unflinchingly honest.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 19, 2024

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 11, 2024

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.

| Nov 4, 2024

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.

| Nov 4, 2024

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

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 3, 2024

The non-linear structure means seeing Rona at rock bottom, but I found the recovery process far more interesting.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 1, 2024

The Outrun is a melancholic affair, but it’s the melancholy of sad poems and lonely beaches.

| Oct 26, 2024

It’s impossible to overstate the gorgeous balance struck between Ronan’s performance, Nora Fingscheidt’s assured, innovative direction, Yunus Roy Imer’s textured and muscular cinematography, and Stephan Bechinger’s expertly calibrated editing.

| Original Score: A | Oct 22, 2024

Not that anybody needs reminding, but Ronan proves herself the finest actress of her generation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2024

Watching The Outrun feels worse than seeing a wild colt being forced to take the bit. Here the heroine must break herself because our puritanical moment demands it. Conform, or else.

| Oct 18, 2024