Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
8 |
...a smart comedy... |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
9 |
"All right" doesn't begin to describe it. The Kids Are All Right is wonderful. |
filmcritic.com
Bill Gibron |
8 |
...terrifically entertaining and moving... |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
7 |
...a ruefully funny, beautifully acted comedy of manners and unconventional celebration of gay marriage. |
Slant Magazine
Lauren WIssot |
7 |
...this isn't the stuff of summer action flicks, but universal affairs of the heart. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
8 |
I like how this hilarious and heartfelt movie approaches family. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
10 |
I don't know what's more delightful — that The Kids Are All Right stars Bening, Moore, and Ruffalo at the top of their games in an irresistible story of lesbian marriage, sperm-donor fatherhood, sex, red wine, and teen angst. Or that this warm, funny, sexy, smart movie erases the boundaries between specialized ''gay content'' and universal ''family content'' with such sneaky authority. |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
10 |
...so canny in its insights and so agile in its negotiation of complex emotions that it deserves to stand on its own. It is outrageously funny without ever exaggerating for comic effect, and heartbreaking with only minimal melodramatic embellishment. |
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey |
9 |
Whatever your politics, between peerless performances, lyrical direction and an adventurous script, this is the sort of pleasingly grown-up fare all too rare in the mainstream daze of this very dry summer. |
LA Weekly
J. Hoberman |
8 |
Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo... |
Village Voice
J. Hoberman |
8 |
Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo... |
Onion AV Club
Keith Phipps |
9 |
Cholodenko’s casually observant style perfectly matches the cast’s thoughtful work, though the film ultimately proves more successful at creating messy situations than trying to resolve them... |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
8 |
...more than all right. |
Variety
Rob Nelson |
6 |
...is alright, if not up to the level of writer-director Lisa Cholodenko's earlier pair of new bohemian dramas, High Art and Laurel Canyon. |
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