Ride
Screen Media Films | Release Date: May 1, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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11
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1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
TheWrapJames RocchiApr 27, 2015
While initially playing like a fish-out-of-water (or, more specifically, into-the-water) rom-com, Hunt’s Ride winds up being surprisingly satisfying, a film with the guts to talk about the things that really matter underneath what could have been a glib, shallow version of the same tale. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMay 1, 2015
The film is high-strung, nervous and slightly chilly in the New York scenes, but once the action shifts to the beaches of Venice, it slows down considerably, and fittingly. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickApr 29, 2015
Ride sounds a bit like a Lifetime movie, but in Hunt’s capable hands it’s a brisk, funny and touching comedy for boomers. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaMay 7, 2015
The movie, like Jackie, loosens up a bit, and her relationship with Ian adds a nice bit of warmth. Hunt directs the film, and at times its tonal shifts are a bit jarring. Read full review
60
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganApr 29, 2015
Ride is at its best and most authentic in its final chapter and an inconclusive resolution, but not so sure-footed in how it gets there. Read full review
60
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekApr 28, 2015
There's a wry sweetness to this picture. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 30, 2015
You can't blame Hunt for perhaps taking on too much — at least she wrote herself a complicated role in this sorry age for front-and-center movie women — but it doesn't always make for a smooth Ride. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyIsabella BiedenharnApr 30, 2015
Hunt seems to confuse fast-talking with crackling banter, and the mother-son bond is way ickier than it is cute. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedApr 29, 2015
There are good things in it, but Ms. Hunt is smart, observant and bright enough to make films that resonate with more freshness than this. Maybe next time. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin ChangApr 27, 2015
Where the film falters is in the writing of its central relationship: That Jackie and Angelo love each other fiercely doesn’t make their interactions any less hard to take, and Australian newcomer Thwaites (“Maleficent,” “Son of a Gun”), despite his ample charisma and pitch-perfect American accent, can’t quite get past his character’s callow, whiny affect. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschApr 27, 2015
By turns deft and clumsy, inspired and insipid, Ride is a deeply sincere mess of a comedy. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerApr 29, 2015
Hunt’s writing isn’t exactly knocking off Woody Allen (her characters do send text messages, after all), but it shares with Allen a peculiar, stylized imitation of how New Yorkers supposedly sound. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen HoldenApr 30, 2015
As an instructional movie on the sport, Ride offers some useful tips, but beyond that, it feels like a slightly bizarre vanity project. Read full review
40
The DissolveScott TobiasApr 30, 2015
The simplicity of the film’s East Coast/West Coast assumptions bear out in the rest of the script, which rides such tidy little symmetries all the way to shore, as mom learns to relax and her son grows up a bit. Meeting somewhere in the middle is what mediocrities do. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezApr 27, 2015
Throughout, Helen Hunt obsequiously tends to her character's evolution as a parent through a flagrant indulgence of sitcom-ish scenarios. Read full review
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