The Kids Are All Right opened the LA Film Festival last week, and IndieWire‘s Anne Thompson likes it even better the second time around:
The movie played great—Cholodenko told me she had “tightened” the film since its Sundance debut in January. My seat-mate, Roadside Attractions’ Howard Cohen, agreed that it was even funnier and sexier than we remembered—it plays like a relationship comedy. Even with its comedic bent, because the film has enough dramatic moments and a requisite Big Scene, I am more than ever convinced that Annette Bening will nab an Oscar nom for her performance as one of two lesbian parents of two teen kids, one from each mom and both sired by the same sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo), a laid-back restaurateur and commitment-phobe. Julianne Moore is just as strong—and she and Ruffalo are very sexy. But Bening gets the dramatic moments.
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