It doesn't quite add up as a convincingly rounded drama, thanks largely to a tepid feelgood ending, but there are many good moments - and the expert acting from Blethyn alone is worth the price of a ticket.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Brenda Blethyn gets her teeth into the role of a flamboyant showbiz monster who can't accept that her career has failed to make the big time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2007

This heartfelt, good-natured film grew on me, and Blethyn always commands attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

You can't help but mourn for the hint of an intriguing film that could have been.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2007

In the hands of Mike Leigh, this could be a masterpiece, as it is, it's forgettable fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Feels like a Sunday night 온라인카지노추천 drama - and not a very good one at that.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Introducing the Dwights is funny and poignant, with a tour-de-force performance by British actress Brenda Blethyn.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2007

One of those quirky Australian comedies that's almost as charming and sharp as it thinks it is.

Full Review | Jul 31, 2007

There's nothing lovely, however, about the movie's bombastic ending, but there are enough small moments until then to make this mixed-up experience vaguely worthwhile.

Full Review | Jul 26, 2007

Sometimes Brenda Blethyn is content merely to nibble the scenery. In Introducing the Dwights, a drippy Australian family comedy caper, she chomps it to a pulp until we long for her straightforward monstrosity as a mother in Little Voice.

| Original Score: C | Jul 25, 2007

The broader characterizations may be off, but [director] Nowlan observes other small details with sensitive precision.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 20, 2007

Some offbeat humor shines through the clouds of this glum domestic drama, especially when fun friends shift the focus from Jean's grating histrionics. But it never lasts long.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 20, 2007

[Actor] Wilson hits a new low in the dubious realm of nonretarded actors grinning and flailing their arms about in the hopes of communicating mental deficiency and inspiring sympathy in their audience and recognition from film-award committees.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 20, 2007

[Director] Nowlan has no problem pouring on the syrup.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2007

This film avoids the predictable. Director Cherie Nowlan shows a deft hand, taking us right into the anger and pain of a single mother confronting disappointment and loss even as she's delivering her zingers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Blethyn, Chittenden and Wilson create a believable and ultimately endearing family; a trio of dreamers, big and small.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Ultimately this wondrous film is about letting go -- of old wardrobes, bad jokes, unrealistic dreams and of children and parental ties. You leave glad to have met the Dwights and applauding their adaptability, if not Mom's jokes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

Keith Thompson's screenplay is clever and ensures that every character is well-rounded and recognizably human.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2007

A throw-your-hands-up, head-shaking disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 13, 2007

[The film] likes these people and these kooky scenarios too much to detach itself enough to simply observe them. And it doesn't understand them well enough to convince us they make sense.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 13, 2007