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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75SlashfilmMatt DonatoSlashfilmMatt DonatoRun Sweetheart Run is a passionate Los Angeles marathon that severs heads, scolds abusive norms, and gets loud about the ways society needs to reflect upon bettering itself. Shana Feste finds action-packed elegance in rage and reflection, borrowing from fast-moving midnight flicks that aren't afraid to challenge oppressive stigmas.
- 75IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandShana Feste’s initially grounded “Run Sweetheart Run” takes the concept of a “bad date” and runs with it to wild extremes, unfurling a white-hot, blood-soaked yowl of feminine rage in a tidy horror package that can barely contain all its biggest ideas.
- 67ColliderChase HutchinsonColliderChase HutchinsonWhile it takes a while to get there after dancing around its premise, when Run Sweetheart Run hits its stride it is more than worth running along with it.
- 61Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganWhile the film contains some impressive scares, a phenomenal lead performance and steadfast central message, Run Sweetheart Run is far too preoccupied with speaking to a cultural reckoning that is truly only occurring in terms of optics and vernacular.
- Keeping audiences at a distance—watching and empathizing with Cherie, but never building suspense regarding her survival—Run Sweetheart Run loses its breath long before Cherie’s story arrives at its ludicrous conclusion.
- 40The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeIt’s difficult to fault a film for being over-ambitious given the low-effort nature of so many genre films but the sheer, two-joints-in bizarreness of Run Sweetheart Run needed a surer hand to guide us through. As it is, that run to the finish line ends up feeling like a crawl.
- 40The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanThe New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanBursts of experimental style feel at odds with the movie’s core: a simplistic parable of pervasive sexism.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterBeandrea JulyThe Hollywood ReporterBeandrea JulyThe movie’s premise has the potential to bring something fresh to the horror genre, and Balinska and Asbaek commit fully to their characters. But the script is flat and unimaginative; there’s at once too much information and not nearly enough that reflects how people actually talk to each other.
- 30VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyNothing gels, as the film careens from cartoonishness to violent peril to attempted satire to sentimentality and so forth, all of it hyperbolic and inorganic.
- 25The Film StageMatt CipollaThe Film StageMatt CipollaFeste’s script does nothing to establish its world. While first appearing to be tethered to reality, Run Sweetheart Run soon recontextualizes itself as supernatural without telegraphing or even justifying its decisions.