Here is a movie that knows its women, listens to them, doesn't give them a pass, allows them to be real: It's a rebuke to the shallow "Ya-Ya Sisterhood."Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
Holofcener is honest enough to present human foibles, not just as weaknesses but as unexpected sources of humor and strength.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Like the best of personal, independent cinema -- it is both marvelously observed and completely individual. There is no film like this film, and that is something you don't hear every day.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Lord knows how Holofcener got the performance she did out of Goodwin, but the child actor's Annie, rude and unmanageable, is an extraordinarily rich and complicated figure.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
In this painfully funny and touching look at the vanities and insecurities that a mother (Brenda Blethyn) can pass on to her daughters in the name of love, writer-director Nicole Holofcener ("Walking and Talking") does a chick flick right.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Warmhearted and slightly edgy seriocomedy, these sisters experience some pretty entertaining ups and downs. Entertaining, that is, for people who appreciate irony.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
It is at times serious and at times very funny. But it is always perceptive, and that quality, more than any other, is what makes it worth a recommendation.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
This trio is like a looser, funnier version of the family of wrecks in Woody Allen's ''Interiors.''Read Full Review »
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