Cyrus

Simply by treating these characters as real, with all the uncertainty, emotional baggage and bad decisions that entails, the Duplasses expertly expose the hypocrisy of the airbrushed all-American ideal.

Even at its most troubling, Cyrus is powered by a deep vein of humanism, one that offers hope to even the weirdest among us.

Cyrus is not the jokey, polished production you would expect from its Hollywood cast and LA setting, but audiences who are comfortable with discomfort should find it "funny."

Cyrus sounds like the sort of comedy in which people end up dropping buckets of paint on each other's heads, but the Duplasses treat the characters and their dilemma with utmost seriousness, a technique that gives the movie its uncomfortably comic vibe.

Nobody can play beaten and amusing better than Reilly, and no one is better at playing broken, accessible beauty than Tomei.

Delightfully demented and unique.

It offers you a look at a totally dysfunctional relationship that allows you to look at the relationships in your own life and breathe a sigh of relief.

a sweet, modest, unremarkable film, propped up by seasoned actors playing quirky and "real."

The potentially one-joke premise is given depth, complexity, darkness and pathos by the offbeat execution and the honest performances.

A man battles with his girlfriend's son in this realistic, understated comedy filled with the awkwardness of real life.

... A very fine comic-psychodrama that eschews prat falls and flippancy for a more intimately realist and considered rendering of manchild madness and its antecedents.

An amazing human drama played out by actors at the peak of their profession: and who could want more than that?