The movie tells an admirable and moving story about a woman coming through her troubles, but it conveys no sense of creative or emotional risk.

Part rehab memoir, part travelogue about the wildlife and crashing waves of the Orkneys, Amy Liptrot’s 2016 book The Outrun won prizes and rave reviews, because Liptrot was gesturing to grander horizons than her own personal redemption.

Re-recording mixer Gregor Bonse and supervising sound editor Dominik Leube tell IndieWire about using sound to bring disparate spaces - including its protagonist's emotional turmoil - to life.

Saoirse Ronan “really fell in love with how Amy [Liptrot] wrote about her home, how poetically she described her memory of growing up in the Orkney Islands, and balanced that so beautifully and so effectively with the raw honesty of her struggle with addiction.

Singular actor glows as a student returning to her childhood home, on a windswept island off Scotland, to protect her sobriety.

The crashing of waves, the somber recrimination of chilly charcoal clouds: for the young woman at the center of this story, Rona—played, in a marvelously nuanced performance by Saoirse Ronan —these are both markers of time and reminders that sometimes it’s necessary to temporarily drop out of time,

Saoirse Ronan says it was vital that her new drama “The Outrun” remained true to the memoir it’s based on by Amy Liptrot. Liptrot captured her life as she moved to an extremely remote, tiny island in Scotland to try to maintain her sobriety after reaching rock bottom in her life.

The Outrun is meditative & often poetic, with a powerful, emotional performance by Saoirse Ronan. It's not without pitfalls, but it's a strong debut.

Saoirse Ronan drives home a gripping portrait of alcoholism in "The Outrun," which continues at Ragtag Cinema.