{"id":13931,"date":"2011-02-15T02:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T10:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=13931"},"modified":"2011-02-15T08:09:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T16:09:27","slug":"the-kids-are-all-right-lisa-cholodenko-2010-usa-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=13931","title":{"rendered":"The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Ulrika Bjorck<\/a> at Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2011<\/p>\n

\"\"I went to see The Kids Are All Right<\/a> at the Lobero Theatre the second day of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. I\u2019d heard it was supposed to be a great film. And I was definitely not disappointed; I actually really liked it.<\/p>\n

I found several reviews of the film, and I figured I wanted to chose the ones I thought reflected best what I, myself thought of the film and to let you know the story. Here are some cuttings from the reviews I\u2019ve chosen.<\/p>\n

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Just click on the links below\u00a0to view the full reviews.<\/p>\n

“\u201cThe Kids Are All Right\u201d starts from the premise that gay marriage, an issue of ideological contention and cultural strife, is also an established social fact. Nic and Jules, a couple with two children, a Volvo and a tidy, spacious house in a pleasant suburban stretch of Southern California, are a picture of normalcy.”<\/em> – A. O. Scott, The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

“Here\u2019s the pitch: Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore) live with their teenagers Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson) in a trendy LA neighborhood. Actually, the kids refer to their parents as a single entity: The Momses. Nic\u2019s a doctor and a perfectionist; the looser, groovier Jules was almost an architect once and is now maybe sort of kind of thinking about landscape design. The children share an anonymous sperm-donor daddy and, at 15, Laser is dying to know who it was. Joni, 18 and fresh out of high school, reluctantly makes the phone call. Enter Mark Ruffalo as Paul, dude extraordinaire.”- Ty Burr, The Boston Globe.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u201cThe Kids Are All Right\u201d is directed by Lisa Cholodenko, from a script that she wrote with Stuart Blumberg, and what convinces most in her work here\u2014as it did in her 1998 film \u201cHigh Art\u201d\u2014is that it seems honestly torn between adventure and repose\u201d <\/em>\u2013Anthony Lane, The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMoore, Bening and Ruffalo all deliver endearingly quirky comic performances, with Wasikowska also particularly effective as the confused and resentful Joni.\u201d- Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is Ruffalo’s best performance since his tremendously promising appearance in Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count On Me a decade ago in a similar role: lovable, immature, unreliable, exasperating. This could almost be the same character 10 years on.\u201d <\/em>\u2013 Peter Bradshaw, guardian.co.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWitty, urbane and thoroughly entertaining, “The Kids Are All Right” is an ode to the virtues of family, in this case a surprisingly conventional one even with its two moms, two kids and one sperm donor. 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.\u201d – Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n

To see the official trailer of this film, please click on the link below:<\/p>\n

watch?v=DgwjTy_cohg&feature=player_detailpage<\/a><\/p>\n

IMDb page:<\/p>\n

The Kids Are All Right <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Ulrika Bjorck at Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2011 I went to see The Kids Are All Right at the Lobero Theatre the second day of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. I\u2019d heard it was supposed to be a great film. And I was definitely not disappointed; I actually really liked it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}