While there is a conventional backbone to the story, it keeps us rooted in the experience of a single woman taking on a challenge that some veteran hikers fail to complete, never forgetting the vulnerability of doing it alone.

| Nov 16, 2024

As usual, Witherspoon is fearless, headstrong, and tireless. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 17, 2024

Witherspoon's performance is outstanding.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2022

Reese Witherspoon gives an Oscar-worthy performance in Wild, and the cinematography is beautiful, however Vallée’s tight direction prevents the film from becoming a “connect the dots” of emotion and redemption.

| Jun 27, 2022

"Wild" is truly a film that every woman should see and one they should put on a more preferred pedestal for ideals compared to the "chick flicks" that ruin women's good sense.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2022

The cinematography is great. We have here an epic journey of self discovery.

| Oct 7, 2021

Wild is an extraordinary experience, a spiritual and emotional coming of age for a mourning daughter set against nature. A perfect film from Jean-Marc Vallée and awards-worthy performance from Reese Witherspoon.

| Oct 7, 2021

It's too bad that the movie, in its last thirty minutes, doesn't trust the audience to process what it just saw.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2021

At its core, it's actually about a woman coming to terms with her tragic past, including the death of her beloved mother, and figuring out how to forge a future for herself.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 30, 2021

Why should audiences care about her very unexceptional life?

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

...Fine, but it all adds up to something pretty tame when looked at with any seriousness.

| Aug 11, 2020

Wild slowly but surely enters the frazzled mind of its subject in vividly moving detail.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 2, 2020

Nothing happened at all.

| May 27, 2020

It really felt like Oscar bait.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Mar 26, 2020

Dern is terrific in this all-important supporting role, but it's Witherspoon's party, and she delivers the goods.

| Jan 9, 2020

Sometimes, simplicity makes for a most evocative and emotional journey, and Vallee's Wild is successful in that regard.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 12, 2019

Thanks for pulling a movie like this together, Reese.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 2, 2019

Witherspoon is completely magnetic, and Laura Dern's all-too-brief turn as Strayed's mother is a delight.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Redemption in the modern age. There's confident direction from Vallée but little to truly delve into. Watch simply for a soulful and spellbinding Witherspoon.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2019

Wild's script hands out platitudes like servers at a wedding. There's no subtlety, or curiously any peril in this bland and unbearably introspective expedition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2019