A deeply affecting, bittersweet testament to the vulnerability of families and the hardships essential to maintain them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2023

Results in an experience that boasts all the merits of the genre and none of its mistakes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 10, 2023

A warmly funny dramedy about chosen family.

| Sep 26, 2022

"The Kids Are All Right" has no soapboxes, agendas, arguments, stereotypes, or side-choosing politics. It just tells a story of what the politicians forget is at the underlying heart of the issue: family and love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 12, 2022

Say what you will about Lisa Cholodenko, but she and co-writer Stuart Blumberg deserve some major Kudos (the good kind with the chocolate chips) for writing these incredible female characters.

| Jun 9, 2021

It is a wonderful example of what happens when you blend a near perfect cast with stellar direction and a story worth telling.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

This is the kind of movie that had me wishing, moments after I'd left the theatre, that there were more movies like it-sly, sexy grown-up dramas driven by characters who are as fallible as they are likable.

| Jul 24, 2019

I'm not sure there are many recent releases that understand and explore the family dynamic better than "Kids." That alone makes the film worth a look.

| Original Score: B | May 9, 2019

Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko gives so much depth and realism to this modern-day-family dramedy, you can feel the love pouring out of her for each one of these unconventionally authentic characters.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 31, 2018

An all too rare example of a funny, heart warming and insightful adult American comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2018

Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right suggests what mainstream cinema could be in a kinder world.

| Oct 3, 2018

The Kids Are All Right is the height of self-congratulatory, agenda-driven filmmaking. As such, you can expect to hear from it come Oscar time.

| Oct 3, 2018

It is Bening who sears as a likeable jumble of contradictions... It's a masterclass - and reason enough to buy your ticket.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

A fantastic film, exuding charm, wit, love, insecurity and anguish.

| Aug 13, 2018

Together the performances mark the perfect recipe in a beautifully written story is both funny in the most surprising parts and touching when it needs to be.

| Original Score: A | Sep 9, 2017

A certain smugness creeps into the corners of The Kids Are All Right. Morality doesn't have to mean Puritanism, but there is something of that here.

| Aug 22, 2017

A great story for our time.

| Oct 7, 2016

I want to high five the person who cast Benning and Moore as a couple. They're scenes are the most delicious parts of the film.

| May 1, 2015

We're shown real life problems in a fictional story that gives us real life solutions. Bravo Lisa, your film is more than all right.

| Aug 28, 2013

Bening hoists this heavy-handed dramedy high with a burst of superhuman strength. And all you can do is sit in awe.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | May 25, 2013