The Outrun
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: October 4, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
34
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Rolling StoneDavid FearOct 4, 2024
Ronan can’t save The Outrun from its limitations as a drama, or from its worst stack-the-deck instincts. But she does lift this film up and infuse the storytelling with a genuine sense of what it means to try living one day at a time for the rest of one’s life. Read full review
60
EmpireLaura VenningSep 26, 2024
Although sometimes baggy and uncontrolled, The Outrun is a sensitive, non-judgemental portrayal of addiction and mental illness, anchored by a typically transcendent performance from Saoirse Ronan. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 19, 2024
These relationships are poised to be explored in more depth than they are. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiFeb 2, 2024
With a powerful central performance and an occasionally chaotic but nonetheless captivating and moving narrative — helped along by fantastic editing and cinematography — The Outrun is a detailed film strengthened by its connection to nature’s beauty and belonging to it. Read full review
55
TheWrapLex BriscusoJan 22, 2024
It’s a bit muddled in execution, but despite its faults, the film is visually ambitious with things to say hidden under the surface. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodyOct 9, 2024
The movie tells an admirable and moving story about a woman overcoming her troubles, but it arouses no aesthetic interest, no sense of discovery in real time, no sense of creative risk. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 9, 2024
The problem is that Ronan is also forging her compelling warts-and-all portrait of obliteration and recovery in another type of gale storm, that of undisciplined filmmaking at odds with the patient harvesting of characterization. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonOct 3, 2024
Ultimately, it is Ronan who transcends the material and almost wills “The Outrun” into something more than the sum of its parts. Her Rona is tempestuous and passionate, and soon discovers that to master herself she must surrender to nature. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanFeb 2, 2024
On its own unvarnished, metaphoric, diary-of-destruction-and-renewal terms, The Outrun is competent and even stylishly made, yet I have to confess: I found the movie overwhelmingly drab. Read full review
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