The Outrun (2024) review

Smart but unemployed Rona (Saoirse Ronan) has a severe problem with the drink - she has violent outbursts that end up with her injuring herself and her boyfriend Daynin (Paapa Essiedu) leaves her because of it - so she goes through rehab and then takes a job with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds where she reflects on her past missteps.  It's based on Amy Liptrot's supposedly well-regarded memoir, but you wouldn't know it from this dry presentation: director Fingscheidt either has the camera shaking wildly when Rona's having an "episode" or it's completely still while she's in "contemplation" mode, and it presents the story in a non-linear manner in an attempt to mask how ordinary it is (for example, I can name you more than one person I've known who's behaved in exactly this way).  As talented as Ms. Ronan is, not even she can do a whole lot with what she's been handed except appear despondent (she has a family history of mental illness), and the "cool science facts" she mentions throughout are, I suppose, a little interesting.  Perhaps that's what we should do with alcoholics: get them interested in nature, plonk them down on a frigid island and wait for them to sober up.