A serendipity of a movie with twists and turns I absolutely did not see coming.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 28, 2023

Essentially a period tearjerker about a woman’s resilience in the face of tragedy, but an evocative, emotionally effective one, anchored by a powerful lead performance by Hermione Corfield.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 26, 2023

A small beauty, old-fashioned in emotion and technique, a pocket epic shot in the 4:3 Academy ratio of the earliest feature films. The storytelling is old-fashioned, but its raptures dear; the landscapes are timeless. Hopeful, it sweeps, even soars.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 16, 2023

Carrying most of the burden is Corfield, who is outstanding. The actor channels Kirsty’s despair in a way that cuts straight to your heart. You simply can’t take your eyes off her, her conviction in the role a force to be reckoned with.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Oct 15, 2023

We’re left with the pretty scenery and a free-floating sense of inconsequentiality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2023

Scottish Gothic-romantic entry boasts fine lead turn by Hermione Corfield and sweeping novelistic detail.

| Original Score: B | Oct 13, 2023

Strong performances and striking visuals elevate this true-life Scottish melodrama above its narrative conventions.

| Oct 13, 2023

... committed acting performances, particularly by the primary trio of Corfield, Morven Christie, and Ali Fumiko Whitney (the latter as Kirsty’s mother and sister), elevate this film far beyond what the rather mundane scripting gives them to work with.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 13, 2023

An old-fashioned melodrama, The Road Dance isn't quite up to the task of tackling the severity of the traumatic event at its core.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2023

The result has neither the full force of realism nor the emotional pleasures of melodrama; what it most calls to mind is something seen and half-forgotten on PBS.

| Oct 12, 2023

A standard period drama that arrives at hard truths with a hammy delivery.

| Oct 12, 2023

“The Road Dance” is well worth a turn on the dance floor, delivering nicely on the time you invest in these characters and their situation.

| Oct 9, 2023

However, what unfolds in The Road Dance is an engaging, beautifully filmed, and intimately acted tale of trauma, grief, resilience, and hope.

| May 23, 2023

The commanding sense of place is most memorable in this naturalistic story of female bonding, a sweeping, sensitive melodrama about the consequences of a single violent act in a remote community

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2022

… a handsome production that is striving for an emotionality that it cannot deliver because it fails to utterly commit to the protagonist.

| Original Score: 13/20 | Dec 12, 2022

Photographed in the old-fashioned pre-wide-screen 3 x 4 ratio, the film is simple but, in its small way, quite memorable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 9, 2022

The Road Dance is elevated by the simply stunning turns of both Fletcher and Corfield, the latter especially grand in the type of performance that feels as if we’re watching an actress just before she breaks through to public awareness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2022

... You can forgive the cliches because their implausibilities are overshadowed by the craggy grandeur of the island itself, with its huddled stone cottages and the closeness of those who dwell in them.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 7, 2022

The Road Dance is a sweeping epic of a type we don't see much of any more.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2022

…if you can handle the subject, then The Road Dance has enough good acting and narrative energy to make for a fairly gripping entertainment…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2022