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  • 2022
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2022
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Fleeing from his father, Irish 12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. Joy has decided to give her child away to a friend, and Mully needs to get some distance from his debt-ridden dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. And so two lovable rogues, a complicated middle aged ...

Directed By: Emer Reynolds

Written By: Ailbhe Keogan

  • 2022
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2022
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m

Joyride

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Fleeing from his father, Irish 12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. Joy has decided to give her child away to a friend, and Mully needs to get some distance from his debt-ridden dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. And so two lovable rogues, a complicated middle aged ...

Directed By: Emer Reynolds

Written By: Ailbhe Keogan

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
48
31% Positive
4 Reviews
69% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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31% Positive
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69% Mixed
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Feb 28, 2023
Joyride is terrific, a storytelling and acting gem bursting with heart yet never saccharine.
By Kim Hughes FULL REVIEW
67
Dec 23, 2022
Though the inimitable Colman can’t help but muscle an admirable performance out of the overly sentimental material, her immense talent dwarfs the melodramatic surroundings.
By Jude Dry FULL REVIEW
60
Aug 1, 2022
This odd-couple comedy road movie paints its characters in brushstrokes so broad you could land a jumbo jet on them, while the intrusively affable score lurches into every scene like a drunk with no concept of personal space. And yet Colman saves the picture, her thorny performance gradually revealing a well of pain.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 23, 2022
Joyride, a grievously schematic blend of odd-couple comedy and life-affirming road movie, traverses the Irish countryside with a small degree of charm and a boatload of blarney.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 22, 2022
Colman does her absolute best to counter a scenario that manages to be both strangely off-putting and patly predictable, by shaping up a tartly unsentimental turn.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 29, 2022
There is nothing much to actively dislike here. Reynolds, a hugely experienced editor who won an Emmy for directing the superb documentary The Farthest, keeps the energy high and allows her fine cast to exercise all muscles. But Joyride feels like old-fashioned stuff.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 27, 2022
Every actor involved sells it hard and it’s good natured, but the unbelievability factor is just too high.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Embankment Films, Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland, Ingenious Media, Subotica
Release Date Dec 23, 2022
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Website http://www.magpictures.com/joyride/
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Awards

Irish Film and Television Awards
• 2 Nominations
London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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