There are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments, many of which are intermingled with sob-out-loud moments. It helps greatly that first-time director Chris Kelly maintains a low-key, naturalistic vibe throughout.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 14, 2017

Other People is gentle, heartfelt, and of a delicate build. Kelly's best observations are small but true: the touching banality of a bad pop song, and that "other people" is in fact most people, if you're paying attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 15, 2016

"Other People" breathes new life into the formulaic, dark comedy about death.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 12, 2016

Just when you thought you never wanted to see another Sundance movie about an uptight white guy whose mom has cancer, along comes this funny, honest film, featuring a game-changing performance by Molly Shannon.

| Sep 9, 2016

Inherently melodramatic, the film belongs to Ms. Shannon, who vividly etches Joanne in a full end-of-life range: funny, loving, angry, regretful, exhausted, resigned.

| Sep 8, 2016

Cancer and coming out aren't exactly fresh topics for an indie film, but here they have the authenticity of lived experience, and both Shannon and Plemons are exceptional.

| Sep 8, 2016

Smart, lovely, funny, occasionally edgy, slightly cynical and ultimately heart-tugging.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 8, 2016

Emotions run deep and wide here; anyone who's ever lost a parent, longed for love and acceptance, or tried to find his or her true self should easily relate. It's a terrific film.

| Sep 8, 2016

Poignancy is a difficult thing to achieve, since it can come off as inauthentic or dumb. "Other People" gets there because David, Norman and Joanne do not want our pity.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 8, 2016

If the film at times feels like it's clicking off the boxes of an indie-film checklist, it still has some genuinely emotional scenes, particularly those between Shannon and Plemons.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 8, 2016

Kelly's someone who knows that the biggest laughs are often the hardest to earn-the ones that come when the punchlines are delivered without a safety net.

| Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2016

A number of Kelly's scenes play out like stand-alone sketches - some quite funny; not all of them essential - rather than parts of a whole. But that's easily forgiven considering the candor of his insights and his strong cast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 8, 2016

It's a little easy, a little obvious, but there's still an undeniable specificity to it-the sense that it comes from someplace genuine.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 8, 2016

Despite a strong sense of its characters ... Kelly rarely generates much melodramatic or amusing momentum.

| Sep 7, 2016

Mines moments both absurd and divine to craft its delicately wrought pathos.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 6, 2016

Raw, messy and unkempt (as a domestic cancer drama should be), Saturday Night Live writer Chris Kelly's feature debut is also a woe-is-me gay rom-com, a showdown between siblings and-at its best-an out-and-proud minimusical.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2016

The film is at its sharpest when Chris Kelly hands scenes over to his main character's family and friends.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 6, 2016

A sensitive look at a man's long goodbye to his dying mother, Chris Kelly's Other People understands that even primal grief and fear can't always squeeze out mundane self-obsession.

| Aug 9, 2016

"Other People" is ultimately a cancer dramedy about the life lessons learned by someone other than the patient-where one person suffers for someone else's enlightenment.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 23, 2016

Shannon is superb, and first-time writer-director Chris Kelly (who writes for "SNL") gives her great lines she delivers with aplomb.

| Jan 23, 2016