Slate by David Edelstein

Rich, finely judged, gorgeously acted movie.

Washington Post by Stephen Hunter

Friendship matters to those of us who still claim membership in the human race, and Goldbacher's merciless autopsy on it is both illuminating and dispiriting.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Has a bracing truth that's refreshing after the phoniness of female-bonding pictures like "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

This film's intelligence and forthrightness about the things women sometimes do to one another -- and its resoluteness about where the line should be drawn in terms of selflessness between friends -- set it head and shoulders above most contemporary movies that deal with friendships between women.

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

Michelle Williams turns in a performance that is seamless, canny and artistically mature.

San Francisco Chronicle

A powerful new film from British writer-director Sandra Goldbacher.

Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A chick movie? Well, yes, but it's a whole lot cooler than that one with the "Ya-Ya's" in the title.

ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Offers a clear-eyed chronicle of a female friendship that is more complex and honest than anything represented in a Hollywood film.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paula Nechak

Love. Lust. Recrimination. Jealousy. Resolution. This British female friendship melodrama has them all.

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

You won't want to miss it if you care about movies that dare to chart intimacies in our age of spectacle, or about up-and-coming female performers and underused male veterans finding roles worthy of their gifts.

San Francisco Chronicle by Carla Meyer

A powerful new film from British writer-director Sandra Goldbacher.

Variety by David Rooney

The two appealingly played central characters and the film's enjoyable evocation of the 1970s and '80s keep it buoyant and diverting.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Under its drab contemporary trappings, the movie, is really a Jane Austen-like moral parable in which goodness is rewarded and selfishness punished.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Aided by raw, committed performances from her two leads, Goldbacher makes them tough company for themselves and anyone else around them, on or off the screen.

Film Threat

A sum greater than its parts. The viewer is taken on a journey spanning nearly three decades of bittersweet camaraderie and history, in which we feel that we truly know what makes Holly and Marina tick, and our hearts go out to them as both continue to negotiate their imperfect, love-hate relationship.

Portland Oregonian by Kim Morgan

A slight, smartly dressed bit of melodrama that thinks it's gritty when it's really a bit of puff.