Weekend Film Reviews
Wild
Reese Witherspoon is the angry, wounded soul of Wild. She commands the screen throughout her heroine's 1,100-mile journey of self-discovery and self-repair, on foot and mostly alone, from the Mojave desert to northern Oregon along the Pacific Crest Trail.
By Joe Morgenstern • • 3m ListenReese Witherspoon carries the whole movie, even though this screen adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's autobiographical best-seller is burdened, like the book, with life lessons and unneeded explanations that it dispenses, like CliffsNotes, at every opportunity.