It's better suited to the page than screen as the pain gets passed off in purple prose, which in turn undermines the emotional core.

| Original Score: C | Dec 10, 2022

If you are in the right mindset for a serious drama, All My Puny Sorrows is a delicate, beautiful story, a worthy screen adaptation of a book that has challenged and comforted many readers.

| Oct 3, 2022

The performances are strong all around, especially from Alison Pill as a woman painfully and poignantly trying to convince her sister that life is worthwhile.

| Jun 13, 2022

Despite excellent performances from Pill and Gadon, working in tandem with McGowan’s efforts to conjure the film's effective atmosphere of limbo, All My Puny Sorrows ultimately sags under the weight of its unwieldy script.

| Jun 7, 2022

The acting is first rate by Pill and Winningham but the overall angst of the story drags it down.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 25, 2022

It's very heavy... But if you stick with it, it's worth it.

| May 10, 2022

Alison Pill just tears it up in this. She is funny, raw, and complex.

| May 10, 2022

Where many films would use this as a springboard for a tedious moral treatise on a hot-button issue, “All My Puny Sorrows” keeps the focus commendably and non-judgmentally personal.

| May 6, 2022

In the end, the film not only entertains but illuminates the human condition. It’s an honest and moving work, full of artistry and bravery.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2022

The story, dealing with the sensitive subjects of suicide and depression, is routinely thoughtfully handled and grounded with a pair of emotionally riveting performances from Alison Pill and Sarah Gadon

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2022

The small Canadian indie will make you laugh and cry with its intelligent story of a family now mostly consisting of women trying to avoid one more tragedy. Sisters (Sarah Gadon and the exceptional Alison Pill) are at the center of it all. (mini review)

| Original Score: 4.5.5 | May 4, 2022

The ensemble builds believable chemistry as intimate family members, and when their characters deliver their arguments for life or death, the stakes feel appropriately high.

| May 3, 2022

While the adaptation is, in many ways, quite skilled, the pace of All My Puny Sorrows is so stately, and the overall tone so reserved, that it results in an emotionally muted film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2022

What's remarkable about writer-director Michael McGowan's adaptation of Miriam Toews' bestselling novel is that it's often warm and funny, even when dealing with extremely heavy subject matter.

| May 2, 2022

The beating heart of Puny Sorrows comes down to the central performances.

| Apr 22, 2022

All My Puny Sorrows is a mature and beautiful story, the union of a celebrated author with a filmmaker in his creative prime.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 15, 2022

A transcendent experience that forgives and moves forward.

| Apr 15, 2022

All My Puny Sorrows is an emotional movie that embraces the totality of the situation, the exasperation, sorrow and even occasional humor.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2022

I love this movie like a person. It pierced my heart the way certain paintings or pieces of music do. The way standing at the foot of a mountain does.

| Apr 13, 2022

Thematically, All My Puny Sorrows is an audacious project to tackle in a 105 minute film, one that cant help but fall short despite the earnest effort. Lifes like that.

| Original Score: B | Apr 12, 2022