Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan's rural romance is cliched, earnest and all over the place.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 10, 2024

...a mostly compelling and ingratiating endeavor that fares best in its low-key first half...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2023

The script feels old-fashioned, offering contrasting results throughout the duration of the movie: sometimes it is adorable, sometimes reprehensible. Nevertheless, it offers warm moments filled with nostalgic longing for romantic epics.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 20, 2023

Wild Mountian Thyme is a cinematic oddity. A film completely devoid of (lucky) charms but simultaneously a must-see movie. Cult classic status awaits!

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 12, 2022

It ends up being a movie you want to root for. But it speeds through so much of the story, shortchanges so many characters, and relies so heavily on a truly annoying lead (sorry Mr. Dornan).

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Unlikely to generate any buzz, and dripping with strands of honey, 'Wild Mountain Thyme' has no sting. And, yes, the accents are a problem.

| Sep 13, 2021

A fever dream of awfulness that feels more like a delusion born of a year-long lockdown than an actual big screen romcom.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 29, 2021

[A] soulless adaptation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 12, 2021

To put the experience of Wild Mountain Thyme in vivid, cinematic terms: it's a Hallmark movie aspiring to mimicry ... and exceedingly less fun than that bizarre precis suggests

| Jun 5, 2021

In theory, maybe, this had a roadmap for success, in execution, however, it stumbles into meandering nonsense; hurried and ineffective.

| May 16, 2021

Loud and obnoxious...quite astonishingly panned, and it's so bad that there's an outside possibility it might become a marginal cult classic. But honestly? I doubt it.

| May 10, 2021

The plot is resolved with such a daft idea that it's hard to believe this was actually written in a script and filmed by sentient adults.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 7, 2021

However, one spends the majority of Wild Mountain Thyme just kind of confused.

| May 6, 2021

A strange, ill-conceived film that feels like it's actually going out of its way to embarrass its audience and its actors.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 4, 2021

Shanley has an Oscar and a Pulitzer (he wrote the sublime Moonstruck, and the stage and screen versions of Doubt). Here, that's easy to forget...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 2, 2021

Paddywhackery of the highest order is delivered in this execrable rom-com that's almost surreal in its unashamed awfulness.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 30, 2021

Dornan is rather touching as the socially awkward young farmer, though he has zero chemistry with Blunt, which is probably why I was rooting for her to run off with Jon Hamm.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2021

Wild Mountain Thyme is neither fish or fowl. It isn't bonkers enough to gain "so bad it's good" cult status, nor is it believable enough to be taken seriously. I simply didn't care.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2021

There's whimsy aplenty in all this, and one or two touching moments, but on the whole it's a misbegotten affair which strains for authenticity like a hooley in a temperance hall, while never quite finding it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2021

Sadly, not even a strong cast can rescue a pot of gold from the end of this rainbow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2021