80
Witty and moving, this is a low-budget Brit triumph that marks its director as a talent to watch.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
60
Time Out London by Cath Clarke
How much you love this low-budget British effort will depend on your tolerance to quirkiness.
38
The film uses the grieving process to lend the proceedings a sense of unearned emotional gravitas.
40
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Anna feels more like a device than a person, a collection of eccentric behaviors (her job involves counting molehills) that support an aesthetic of excessive cuteness.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
While its protagonist is believably eccentric, the people surrounding her look more like transparent plot devices the more of them we meet.
70
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
While Adult Life Skills could often use more focus, it digs deep to achieve a sense of catharsis, and as a woman who's trying to be invisible, but can't isolate herself forever, Whittaker (currently the Doctor on “Doctor Who”) carries the film.
60
It is a kooky, touching, continually droll comedy drama that treads simultaneously familiar and unusual ground in its exploration of grieving for a sibling, more specifically a twin.
40
For the most part, the film is similarly content to repeat the past, all the way through to its predictable liberating-feel-good wrap-up.
63
The main reason people check this out will be Whittaker’s new role as Doctor Who. And she doesn’t disappoint. She gives this walking-wounded woman a hint of the coquette she never realized she was, a smartness informed by sadness and — with a little boy she’s utterly ill-qualified to baby sit, much less mentor — a purpose.
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego
A relentlessly quirky British comedy-drama that demonstrates why more is not always more.