The Kids Are All Right (2010)

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Its emotional pull remains consistent to the end.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Rene Rodriguez

Miami Herald

Top Critic

Sophisticated and funny, but once you get past the unusual premise and the fact that the main couple is realistically portrayed, there's nothing surprising about it.

July 29, 2010 Full Review

Eric D. Snider

Film.com

Top Critic

'The Kids Are All Right': Alt Sitcom Remains Smart Despite Conventional turn

July 28, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

Definitions of family, love and friendship all get put to the test with wit and warmth in The Kids Are All Right, one of the year's most honest and endearing films.

July 23, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Here are five gifted actors at the top of their games as five characters in search of what makes a family.

July 22, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Cholodenko understands that the family, any family, remains a primal source for drama that is both mirthful and maddening.

July 16, 2010 Full Review

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

A twist on the traditional family drama, where every character has depth and deserves redemption.

August 15, 2011 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

The dialog seems like it was pulled from a magazine full of bad liberal clichés. It feels as if people who used to be progressives, but want people to think they still are wrote this movie.

February 27, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Michelle Alexandria

Eclipse Magazine

This is very tricky material to parse, mainly because the movie is telling us one thing in dialogue and showing us quite another visually.

February 23, 2011 Full Review

Dan Callahan

House Next Door

What it lacks in grandstanding and pandering to the 'issues', this film more than makes up for with its great story, rounded characters and genuine sense of fun.

February 1, 2011 Full Review

Mike Edwards

What Culture

The Kids Are All Right is witty, touching and humane - and decidedly up to the minute.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Jason Best

Movie Talk

More of a breezy drama, as opposed to a weighty comedy... the ace up its sleeve, aside from its "modern family" plot device, is its characters, brought to life with welcome layers and depth by the cast.

January 18, 2011 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

How, despite such a talented, femme-centric cast, does Ruffalo's loveable idiot manage to walk off with the film?

January 11, 2011 Full Review

Matt Glasby

Flicks.co.nz

Regardless of the orientations, 'The Kids Are All Right' is an all-American film.

January 3, 2011 Full Review

Clay Cane

BET.com

The Kids Are All Right would have been a highly regarded, stinging family drama in the tradition of American Beauty and Ordinary People even if the subject family was not so proudly unorthodox.

December 30, 2010 Full Review

Jordan Hiller

Bangitout.com

A bittersweet family dramedy that challenges the perceptions of the perfect family...

December 19, 2010 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

The combined troupe do a good enough job to make the movie get by, but not enough to mask the huge gears running the story, nor the accidental and ironic anti-progressiveness the movie has the potential to convey.

December 10, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Jeffrey Chen

ReelTalk Movie Reviews

A long-form sitcom overly pleased with its own progressiveness.

November 26, 2010 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

...All the pieces are in place--I just wish Cholodenko had been a little more precious about the execution.

November 24, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Bill Chambers

Film Freak Central

Without any humor in the story, this would be a very sad story about a destructive mix of personalities causing havoc in a family. But the film does have a lot of humor in it.

November 24, 2010 Full Review

Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

full review at Movies for the Masses

November 20, 2010 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

The Kids Are All Right plays like a pilot episode for a new Showtime series, but it's a heartfelt and well-acted sitcom nonetheless.

November 16, 2010 Full Review

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

• 1. Laser: Did you guys think I was gay?
  – Submitted by Georgie H (15 months ago)
• 1. Jules: [on lesbian pornography] ...usually they just hire two women to pretend, and the inauthenticity is just unbearable.
  – Submitted by Jose D (16 months ago)
• 1. Jules: I wish you were gay, you'd be much more sensitive.
  – Submitted by Joey J (2 years ago)
• 1. Paul: It's hard enough to open your heart in this world. Don't make it harder.
  – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)
• 1. Jules: ...marriage is hard... Just two people slogging through the shit, year after year, getting older, changing. It's a fucking marathon, okay? So, sometimes, you know, you're together for so long, that you just... You stop seeing the other person. You just see weird projections of your own junk. Instead of talking to each other, you go off the rails and act grubby and make stupid choices... You know if I read more Russian novels, then...
  – Submitted by rob g (2 years ago)

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