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

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

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

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

One remains staggered that sentient human beings who walk upright and use cutlery believed this was a respectable use of their valuable time.

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

Blunt and Walken's brogue-off makes this the King Kong v Godzilla event of inauthentic Irish voices.

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

[A] film so frivolous and twee I felt as if my brain were leaking out of my nostrils as I watched.

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

The whole film feels like an elaborate prank.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 26, 2021

As a romantic drama, it's total nonsense. But as an escape from reality, you could do worse.

| Dec 12, 2020

The two leads are watchable enough, but the script keeps their characters emotionally separated, so you never see anything remotely like chemistry between them.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 11, 2020

Magically delicious... How these two sexy stunners could live side by side and not fall madly in love despite the arrival of his boorish but hot American cousin makes for a very heavy fantasy soufflé.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2020

Over and over again, you won't know whether to feel baffled or amused -- although by the end, the former feeling most assuredly dominates the latter.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 11, 2020

"Wild Mountain Thyme" is the kind of film you want to love, just as you want these two characters to fall in love, and it's simultaneously exasperating and original that they don't go about their courtship in the usual fashion.

| Dec 11, 2020

To be fair, nobody truly Irish would ever think that Guinness from a bottle is going to be the same as a pint in a pub.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 10, 2020

John Patrick Shanley, the writer of "Moonstruck," made one fatal error with his new romantic comedy, "Wild Mountain Thyme": He directed it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 10, 2020

When all is said and done, the movie itself is for the birds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 10, 2020

Wild Mountain Thyme is not just charmless. It is genuinely confounding, a movie constantly working against itself to make its characters and their dilemma comprehensible.

| Dec 10, 2020

Whimsy gives way to malarkey. And, blimey, someone should have hired an Irish dialect coach.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 10, 2020

The film takes such a circuitous route down a familiar path, and does so with such wit and eccentricity, that the experience as a whole becomes harder and harder to resist.

| Dec 10, 2020