LITTLE ROCK — Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right is a wonderful film, writes reviewer Philip Martin in Friday’s MovieStyle section. Opening Friday, it is intelligent in the ways of human foible, and generous with sinners. There is a compelling warmth, as well as moments of genuine wit and one heartbreaking scene that will feel familiar to anyone who has ever felt the bottom drop suddenly out of his life.
While it’s not the kind of movie that often leads people to make hyperbolic claims, it’s a rare sort of Hollywood movie — one that painlessly engages our moral understanding and invites our empathy. It’s sexy and funny and true to human nature.
It is, in its way, a fairly conventionally structured family “dramedy,” with the twist that the parental units are lesbians, played as devoted but fatigued domestic partners by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore.
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