It's rare to get a good movie about the touchy adult relationship of a sister and brother. Rarer still for the director to be more fascinated by the process than the outcome. This is one of the best movies of the year.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Satisfying in every respect, it's a piece of blue-collar chamber music, never treating the characters cheaply, allowing them a complex entwinement of emotions.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Few films have explored the complicated bonds of love and resentment between brother and sister with such delightful honesty.Read Full Review »
A humanistic gem of a movie, with unforgettable performances from Linney and Ruffalo.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
There may be bigger, costlier, weighter films this year. There's none lovelier.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
The best American movie of the year. Has a subtext so powerful that it reaches out and pulls you under. Even when the surface is tranquil, you know in your guts what's at stake.Read Full Review »
Maybe these lives are, objectively speaking, inconsequential. But they have a resonance that big, sappy "relationship" pictures ought to envy.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Staff [Not Credited]
The best drama you've seen about Anytown, USA, since "American Beauty."Read Full Review »
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