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

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

Tully is one of the best comedies of the year, fluttering between dark family fair and a Mary Poppins self-help guide

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 27, 2018

Playing opposite ends of a spectrum -- one despairing and worn down, one so hopeful and youthful -- [Davis and Theron] could both have become caricatures of those people and never do.

| Aug 24, 2018

Reitman does succeed at showcasing the sympathetic imagination and flesh impact of his two stars in authentic scenes of domestic mess and cleanup. And Cody attains new legitimacy and veracity as a writer.

| Jun 29, 2018

If who you were is who you still are is an existential question Tully raises with Charlize Theron as its center and forces you to wonder for yourself, too, whether you're a mother or not.

| May 21, 2018

As a portrayal of postpartum depression, Tully is a success-simplistic at times, but an admirable gut-punch nonetheless.

| May 21, 2018

The reason Tully works is because of the sparkling chemistry between Theron and Mackenzie - it makes you want to spend time in their company, and that's largely due to two amazing, fearless but understated performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2018

The emotions Tully surfaces aren't comforting, and they have less to do with the actual realities of motherhood than with the idea of motherhood as something that leaves you forever changed and cut off from your younger self.

| May 10, 2018

The perceptive performances of Theron and of Mackenzie Davis... are beautifully played.

| May 9, 2018

It's a slight story enlarged to universal dimensions by the sharpness of Cody's dialogue and the acuteness of her insights into the domestic pile-up that constitutes Marlo's day.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2018

For those with an appetite for an early-summer movie with heart, but no costumes, "Tully" will take care of them, too.

| May 8, 2018

Tully fails on every level except one: Charlize Theron wakes it from its lethargy, takes it by the jugular, and squeezes until it yells.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 7, 2018

Tully is a walking film script, and the best thing that can be said about the film is that a group of very talented actors works very hard to make its contrivances pass as plausible.

| May 7, 2018

Tully is emotionally complex, bleakly funny and only slightly depressing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2018

Reitman doesn't embellish. He allows Cody's screenplay and Theron's withered, fearlessly unfettered magnificence to do all of the heavy lifting.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2018

In "Tully," the cynicism about the supposed undiluted joys of motherhood rings true, or at least truer than in movies that don't admit such a station in life can be less than paradise.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 4, 2018

The sad fact, however, is that, as Tully proceeds, it tumbles into clunkiness, and there's a desperate unsubtlety to the improvement in Marlo's lot.

| May 4, 2018

The act of tending an infant is handled with some of the grimmest humor this side of Eraserhead.

| May 4, 2018

Cody's writing has never been better.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 4, 2018

I don't think it's a stretch to propose a Charlize Theron Day. The actor has been so good, for so long, that she deserves at least 24 hours' worth of recognition.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2018