Film review: The Outrun is a powerful and uplifting account of confronting one’s inner demons

Saoirse Ronan will undoubtedly be in the Oscar conversation again next year

Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun

• The Outrun 
• ★★★★★
• Cinematic release

You can run as fast as you can, but you’ll never outrun yourself. Adapted from Amy Liptrot’s award-winning memoir of the same name, The Outrun (15A) stars Saoirse Ronan as Rona, a 29-year-old born and bred on Orkney Island and now returning home, after a decade of hard drinking in the fleshpots of London, in a desperate bid to come to terms with her alcohol addiction.