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Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Associated PressMark KennedyThe Associated PressMark KennedyThe uplifting Edie is worthy of your time, mostly thanks to Hancock and Scotland’s natural beauty.
- 60Time OutTime OutIt doesn’t have the balls to be ‘McHarold and Maude’, but it does deliver an engaging, prettily scored (Debbie Wiseman), likeable warning about the dangers of wasting your life.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeaturing an excellent performance by veteran British actress Sheila Hancock (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas), who is clearly up to both the challenging emotional and physical demands of the title role, Edie earns points for good intentions but never quite succeeds in managing to scale its thematic summit.
- 50Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleLos Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSomething tells me a documentary on Hancock simply navigating the rigors of Edie, as well as acting it to the fullest, might have been more readily inspiring.
- 40EmpireEmpireFleeting charm and pretty packaging will leave you partially satisfied but later craving a bolder film that puts its battle-worn title character to better use.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawWe get some lovely photography of the Highlands and the breathtaking landscapes all around Inverness, and Hancock is always a potent presence. But she could have done more, conveyed more, with a story that wasn’t so basically simplistic and familiar.
- 40The Observer (UK)Simran HansThe Observer (UK)Simran HansWith its drab, overpowering score, this tedious drama is nearly as gruelling as the trek up Scotland’s Suilven.
- 40VarietyAlissa SimonVarietyAlissa SimonAn uneven dramedy from U.K. commercials helmer Simon Hunter, working from a screenplay by Elizabeth O’Halloran that has a big problem in tone and beaucoup clichéd contrivance.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisHancock is wasted here, as are the meaty dramatic threads that Elizabeth O’Halloran’s formulaic screenplay never bothers to pull.