They’re working with a great script that loves utilising Scottish dialect and idioms to its fullest, but it’s really the actors that bring these layered characters to stunning life.

| Jul 14, 2024

The film itself makes for a marvelous evening, a tribute to great performers, to humble beginnings, to home, and to the power of a well-crafted story, poured through a generational talent.

| Mar 18, 2022

Rising star Jessie Buckley shines as Rose-Lynn, an ex-con and wannabe country star from Glasgow, in this affecting British film that's definitely a bit grittier than A Star Is Born.

| May 11, 2021

The balance between crowd-pleaser and cliché is a fine one, but Wild Rose manages the former while also delivering a timely message from a voice we desperately needed to hear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021

[If you're] a fan of country music, a fan of Julie Walters, wish to see a big career-making performance from Buckley or simply enjoy solid British films, then it is certainly worth your while.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 25, 2021

I firmly believe there's something rather magical about a British feelgood story. The evidence for this theory? This corker of a movie.

| Oct 8, 2020

[Wild Rose is] carried by a three-dimensional star turn from Jessie Buckley who gives one of the year's best performances.

| Sep 24, 2020

It is a comforting and lovable tale led by a truly star-making turn from Jessie Buckley.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 28, 2020

Country music may be simply 'three chords and the truth', but Wild Rose makes it clear that there's room for complexity in that maxim.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 16, 2020

Unfortunately, the obligatory and unconvincing "uplifting" element and ending in Wild Rose is a central problem.

| Aug 6, 2020

No matter how badly she behaves, she's relatable enough that you can't help but hope all of her ill-advised dreams come true.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 18, 2020

Drenched in realism, unconventional turns and a wee belter in its leading lady, Jessie Buckley. Just rip the lyrics out of the heart of this film and you'd be on to a country winner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2020

Buckley's energy is contagious, her voice if tremendous, and has chemistry with the entire the cast. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 8, 2020

Wild Rose is never particularly surprising, but it's a familiar story renewed in a satisfyingly female-focused way.

| Feb 25, 2020

"Wild Rose" truly works because its relatively unknown star, Jessie Buckley, happens to be blessed with extraordinary singing and acting gifts.

| Feb 20, 2020

The lead performances carry the film, and the soundtrack is sure to sell well. With some more plot discipline, though, it's hard to shake the feeling WILD ROSE couldn't have been so much more.

| Feb 13, 2020

The performances feel genuine and Jack Arnold's subtle score is used intelligently enough to complement the peaks and troughs of the drama, rather than leading us by the hand.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 6, 2020

f any film of the recent barrage of aspiring pop star movies have any semblance of truth, this film subverts the expectations of dreamers around the world by saying the only way to make a change is to look inward.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 4, 2020

Despite my inability to understand some of the dialog , and the fact that I'm not a fan of this kind of music, I enjoyed the film. It is well written and acted. Director Tom Harper also helmed another of my favorite 2019 films, 'The Aeronauts.'

| Original Score: B | Jan 26, 2020

Wild Rose fails to understand just how passive its leading lady is.

| Jan 17, 2020