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

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

| Feb 25, 2020

The movie is like an old honky-tonk song, a little sentimental but full of heart. It torches and twangs without getting too hokey.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 11, 2019

"Wild Rose" is singing a different tune. Just don't be surprised when it winds up getting stuck in your head.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 5, 2019

Wild Rose is just plain lovely.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 29, 2019

...perhaps a little too tidily by the end, Wild Rose nonetheless feels authentic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2019

When the story shifts to Nashville, the screenplay by Nicole Taylor takes some sharp and insightful turns...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2019

Buckley's unusually unguarded expressions give viewers entry into her character's every thought.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2019

In "Wild Rose," that heartbreak can - and does - become something beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 26, 2019

Buckley... confirms that she is a specialist in the untamed.

| Jun 23, 2019

To call Wild Rose a feel-good triumph feels reductive, but it literally makes you feel good and smile. How can you argue with that?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2019

Wild Rose features one of the best lead performances of the year, Jessie Buckley as Rose-Lynn. This one is absolutely brimming with energy and heart, and rocks one particularly unforgettable original song that better get some love this awards season.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 21, 2019

Jessie Buckley is unbelievably great in this crowd-pleasing fable...

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2019

It's saved from overfamiliarity by a welcome swerve in the final reel, and the visceral, raw-nerved life force that Buckley radiates in nearly every frame.

| Original Score: B | Jun 21, 2019

Wild Rose may sound like a familiar tune, but you've never heard it performed quite like this.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 21, 2019

Ms. Buckley brings her own truth to this mostly synthetic confection, and it's a beautiful thing to behold.

| Jun 20, 2019

Buckley has bags of pugnacious charisma and a soaring, throaty singing voice tempered with enough vulnerability to make us want to hold her close even as the screw-up she offers us drives everyone in her orbit up the wall.

| Jun 20, 2019

A dynamic, inspiring tale of setbacks and unexpected victories, set to a vibrant, raucous country soundtrack full of old classics and new original songs.

| Jun 20, 2019

Wild Rose is a film that gives birth to a brand new star named Jessie Buckley, and she absolutely deserves all of your undivided, not-remotely-built-for-plus-30-C attention.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2019

Taylor's script is plausibly grounded in the rhythms of day-to-day family life, in the tough realities of cramped apartments, meager paychecks and broken promises.

| Jun 20, 2019