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The Kids Are All Right
2011
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The Kids Are All Right
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47
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4.0
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4.2
An intimate, funny, occasionally upsetting depiction of a loving family that is, like so many families, often only just functional.
Av Club
4.5
The rest of the film, breathlessly paced though it is, plays like a nostalgic revision of the original The Manchurian Candidate meets The Boys From Br ..
Austin Chronicle
4.0
Its about the slow, inevitable grind of marriage. Its about the eternally unknowable curveballs life throws at you and how you either step up to the p ..
Austin Chronicle
4.4
Its a film about marriage itself, an institution with challenges that are universal.
Rogerebert
5.0
Kids may sound like typically quirky arthouse fare. But this is a movie for everyone and, in one way or another, about everyone, too.
Ny Daily News
4.4
Here are five gifted actors at the top of their games as five characters in search of what makes a family.
Philly
3.8
Its best work since You Can Count On Me, and hes at his most likable here...
Philly
4.5
The actresses are loose and funny, trading off big scenes and clearly enjoying themselves throughout.
Village Voice
3.8
Leaves a lot on the table for those to ponder who might still be unsure if same sex marriages can work.
Sover
4.4
This gem features five topnotch, multidimensional performances in one of this summers most engaging films.
Usa Today
4.5
If you give the film a chance, it might just entertain and/or enlighten to one degree or another thanks to the solid performances, writing and the fil ..
Screen It
4.0
Hugely entertaining, frequently funny and genuinely moving, this is a sharply written comedy drama with refreshingly original characters and terrific ..
View London
3.8
Her dazed, guilt ridden acquiescence greatly complicates an already complicated equation.
Cs Monitor
5.0
The result is a highly intelligent, observant and compassionate study of modern family life far more three dimensional than those films you have to wa ..
Daily Mail
4.5
Guided by an outstanding script, everyone is able to go deep into her or his character. Particular huzzahs are due Bening for the precision she brings ..
Ew
5.0
Advertisement In a movie whose story hinges entirely on how the characters treat one other, the acting here is really interacting, and this stellar en ..
Slate
4.0
An all too rare example of a funny, heart warming and insightful adult American comedy.
Flim List
3.8
Touching and funny in their upheaval, the people in The Kids Are All Right open the door to a brand new examination of family values that leaves you c ..
Observer
3.0
If you liked The Cosby Show and dont reflexively hate gay people then youre pretty much going to dig this movie because its that shows R rated lesbian ..
Movies
5.0
Its a movie about basic things, about the meaning of family and the vulnerability of families, with the suggestion that the ones most subject to bomba ..
Sf Gate
5.0
For an Astaire and Rogers film, Swing Time has an unusually involved, almost free associational plot that suggests what might happen if every 1930s er ..
Slant Magazine
4.5
unny and smart and poignant and real and universal. Its one of the best movies about family Ive ever seen...
Flickfilosopher
4.4
Everyones sunny, Southern Californian, taken for granted privilege is bound to distress another (the film isnt liberated enough not to treat a hardwor ..
Nj
4.0
In all honesty, The Kids Are All Right a fantastic film, exuding charm, wit, love, insecurity and anguish at every appropriate corner.
Hey U Guys
4.4
The best thing about the film is its bigheartedness. Its not out to mock these people, but rather to show how any person of any orientation can become ..
The Star
3.1
The characters in the film feel real, even a bit lived in, and its because of the efforts of the cast; particularly those veteran actors who play the ..
Deseret News
4.0
But it is Bening who sears as a likeable jumble of contradictions.
Games Radar
3.5
Moore and Bening have showcase scenes that will make fine awards show clips, and Ruffalos scruffy sexiness makes Jules infidelity somewhat understanda ..
Tamp A Bay
3.8
The Kids Are All Right might not be as edgy as Cholodenkos past work, but this more mainstream effort has lots of smarts, lots of heart and an open mi ..
New York Post
4.5
...a wonderful thing, intelligent in the ways of human foible, and generous with sinners.
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
NOTE: We forgot to update our number for Despicable Me yesterday despite moving it up to second place.)
ComingSoon
4.0
The films main strength is the screenplay, co written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg. Its perceptive and mercurial, perfectly in tune with the chur ..
Entertainment Times Online ..
3.8
Either way, The Kids Are All Right even with its sometimes laggardly storytelling (whole characters, even whole scenes, could have gone by the wayside ..
No La
3.5
A light, lovingly handled tale about the difficulties of staying in love.
Film 4
4.0
There are few films as soulful and human as Lisa Cholodenkos The Kids Are All Right. That a film can set itself apart from the pack by merely being hu ..
Streaming Quickflix
4.0
Case in point: Lisa Cholodenkos wryly hilarious The Kids Are All Right.
East Bay Express
4.0
The Kids are All Right is funny, touching and honest, all the elements that make independent cinema so much more rewarding, most of the time, than the ..
The Australian
4.5
Enter Paul (Mark Ruffalo), a shambling, freewheeling bachelor restaurateur.
Ny Mag
3.0
Its a new kind of family film, smarter than most and funnier than many.
M Tv
4.4
charming, uplifting, and very funny subversion of the traditional patriarchal family.
Boston Phoenix
3.0
But its the newness of Mitchells musical accountand Rachel Chavkins gracefully dynamic stagingthat bring this old story to quivering life.
New York Time Out
4.5
Together the performances mark the perfect recipe in a beautifully written story is both funny in the most surprising parts and touching when it needs ..
Reel Talk Online
2.5
However, if the movie fails to ape the profound spiritual intimacy possible in traditional marriage, it does a serviceable job mirroring its challenge ..
World Wng
1.5
Cholodenkos films always falter through their obvious, self congratulatory point making.
Ny Press
0.0
A certain smugness creeps into the corners of The Kids Are All Right. Morality doesnt have to mean Puritanism, but there is something of that here.
The Tyee
4.0
conceals an inner loneliness assuaged by short term relationships.
Nashville Scene
4.5
The film joyfully allows us to embrace, rather than escape, the wonderful, awkward embarrassment of familial love.
Bfi
3.5
Sophisticated and funny, but once you get past the unusual premise and the fact that the main couple is realistically portrayed, theres nothing surpri ..
MTV News
5.0
The acting in this film is so good, across the board, that it doesnt feel like acting; were simply watching a family going through some drama over a s ..
Seattle Times
4.5
Regardless of the orientations, The Kids Are All Right is an all American film.
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