Rotten
The film feels like an uncomfortable hodgepodge of styles and tones - gritty and realistic when it's following Ryan, awkwardly staged when it's following Jackie.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Overview
A modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each other's lives forever.
Director and cast
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Fresh
"Jackie & Ryan" may prove too low-key and deliberately paced for less patient viewers, but distinct pleasures are to be had from this compactly shot film's easy rhythms, affecting tone and nicely modulated performances.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
You anticipate a cheap, sentimental ending. But it is not to be, and the movie is much the better for it.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
The section of the movie that should offer a climactic rush, however fleeting, feels instead more like falling action, or even a postscript.
Jesse Hassenger, AV Club
Rotten
Jackie & Ryan is a sort of low-rent Nicholas Sparks romance that, for want of a better way to put it, never generates any sparks of its own.
Sherilyn Connelly, Village Voice
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