There’s a calculated precision to both Reitman’s direction and Cody’s screenplay. The film is perfectly paced and cut, and moves with a rat-a-tat rhythm; the writing is sharp and specific, with a zinger in every other line.

| Feb 6, 2024

This dramedy is chock full of literal and nonliteral humor with brilliant choices of phrasing and timing. Truths in this movie can be flipped like pancakes on a hot griddle and topped by a drizzle of syrup made with quite an infused kick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

It begins as a natural and honest portrait of the struggle of mothers and women, but it loses its integrity with an obvious, writerly choice that reeks of artificiality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 11, 2022

The film explores what women put themselves through to seem like they're doing OK, often ignoring everything from mental illness to their own desires...

| Sep 17, 2021

What Tully does do well is emphasize that parenting is at its best when both Mom and Dad are actively involved in all aspects of their children's lives-together.

| Aug 13, 2021

I was struck by how real the weight of Theron's motherhood feels in Tully.

| Jul 16, 2021

As well as a bittersweet meditation on motherhood, Tully is a paean to the healing power of friendship.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Some will see the plot pirouette that opens the third act as a brilliant narrative shift while others will feel it's a cheap dramatic device -- neither party will be entirely right or wrong.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2021

Reitman (Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air) is a competent filmmaker, but he continues to work the "audacious" and "unique" edges of the most conventional possible territory.

| Feb 21, 2021

The fact I could predict what was going to happen in no way detracted from something I felt was a really poignant and delightful watch. It just kind of left me wanting a little more.

| Jan 26, 2021

It's one of those rare pictures aimed squarely at adults, but without the cheap thrills or melodrama that so often plague such scripts.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 7, 2020

Charlize Theron gives another stellar performance in Tully.

| Nov 4, 2020

It may not be a perfect film, but I seriously loved this film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

"Juno" writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman reunite for the first time in 11 years for "Tully," a dramedy you'll love so much that you'll want to rewind and watch it all over again.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 29, 2020

With many light-hearted touches, the doom and gloom of what, at times, seems like a single parent scenario dissipates.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2020

Cody and Reitman know that boredom is different than security. Boredom is empty and passive; security is filling and reliant.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

Even with a questionable third act, Tully is so effective on a human level that it is still worth a recommendation.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 13, 2020

It offers an honest portrait of what maternal difficulties are in American society. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 27, 2020

While the film sets itself up as an examination of parenting and marriage, it's actually a wonderfully honest look at nostalgia for a time that has not only gone by but would be impossible to recapture at one's current age.

| Jun 11, 2020

This stylistic maturity is typical of writers, who tend to improve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2020