75
Forte’s strength in playing awkward characters works to his advantage.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Village Voice by Chris Packham
Maxine Peake is a revelation in Run & Jump, communicating vitality and extraordinary optimism that practically bleeds out and infects the visuals.
60
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Peake 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.
75
Despite the affecting drama and performances, Run and Jump just never feels more that perfunctory in this regards.
80
Los Angeles Times by Inkoo Kang
Green'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.
80
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Steph Green's first feature has more going for it than a solid dramatic turn by Will Forte.
50
Whether 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.
75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
Run & 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.
90
With 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.
75
Will Forte continues his transition into serious actorhood with this indie.