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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibWith remarkable warmth and immediacy, Green and co-scripter Keogan have managed to capture the beauty of an obviously flawed family, one neither too perfect nor too demographically balanced to ring true, and imbue it with a sense of plenitude that seems to flow as much from the sun-drenched land itself as from the quirkily particular personalities involved.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeSteph Green's first feature has more going for it than a solid dramatic turn by Will Forte.
- 80Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangLos Angeles TimesInkoo KangGreen's resolution is sensitive, expected, yet visionary. And, like the rest of the film, it is shot with a magnificent play of color and light that makes the characters' corner of the world seem like the cradle of compassion.
- 75McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreRun & Jump is an uncommonly offbeat and charmingly unconventional romance, an Irish comedy that lets itself get very serious, now and again, and is all the richer for it.
- Forte’s strength in playing awkward characters works to his advantage.
- 75New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartWill Forte continues his transition into serious actorhood with this indie.
- 70Village VoiceChris PackhamVillage VoiceChris PackhamMaxine Peake is a revelation in Run & Jump, communicating vitality and extraordinary optimism that practically bleeds out and infects the visuals.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanPeake provides the solid center for a movie that would otherwise melt into indie formula. The quirky supporting characters, slow pacing and predictable plotting intermittently threaten to overwhelm such a modest story. But then Ted secretly turns his camera back toward Vanetia and, like him, we’re smitten again.
- 50The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloWhether it’s possible to go on loving somebody who’s no longer himself is a momentous question that this movie largely ducks, ultimately providing an answer that seems imposed from without rather than arrived at organically.