Friendship matters to those of us who still claim membership in the human race, and Goldbacher's merciless autopsy on it is both illuminating and dispiriting.Read Full Review »
Has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."Read Full Review »
80
Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Michelle Williams turns in a performance that is seamless, canny and artistically mature.Read Full Review »
80
Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
This film's intelligence and forthrightness about the things women sometimes do to one another -- and its resoluteness about where the line should be drawn in terms of selflessness between friends -- set it head and shoulders above most contemporary movies that deal with friendships between women.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
A chick movie? Well, yes, but it's a whole lot cooler than that one with the "Ya-Ya's" in the title.Read Full Review »
75
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a Hollywood film.Read Full Review »
70
The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Under its drab contemporary trappings, the movie, is really a Jane Austen-like moral parable in which goodness is rewarded and selfishness punished.Read Full Review »
70
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
An engaging, straightforward narrative about two childhood playmates and the stages of their friendship from 1973 to 2001.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
More predictable than it ought to be - you can set your watch by the appearance of the mournful Nick Drake song on the soundtrack.Read Full Review »
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