It's hard to picture an actress other than Russell so beautifully blending the drama, desperation, hopefulness, sweetness, and sensuality of her character.

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

Adrienne Shelly's 'Waitress' is a bittersweet comedy-drama that has good intentions when it establish its romantic dilemmas, but I feel it lacks grace and emotionality. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 26, 2020

The experience is enjoyable but bittersweet, because Waitress will leave you with a taste for more.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2018

This little movie's got a lot of heart, and it's a heart that's unafraid to embrace life's littlest moments in all its forms.

| Jan 31, 2018

...genuinely, genially funny and carries a modestly affirming moral: You have to make yourself happy and you have to be able to live with yourself.

| Mar 24, 2016

Shelly deftly achieves a tone pitched between fantasy and reality, its levity belying an astute and humane study of an unhappy relationship steeped in inertia.

| Feb 10, 2014

Funny, gentle, unpatronising, if occasionally naive and quirky.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Essentially a king-size serving of sitcom

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Adrienne Shelly's lasting legacy is this exquisite, engaging film about slices of life, Keri Russell's luminosity, an unhurried narrative, Andy Griffith's codger delighting in schadenfreude and even Jeremy Sisto making his abhorrent character relatable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2010

Allergic as I am to quirkiness, I was won over

| Aug 27, 2009

... Fillion offers up an endlessly charismatic performance...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 14, 2009

The film is hardly flawless - even the pie-baking scenes sometimes seem half-baked - but it's hard not to read promise into every frame, and to wonder what Shelly might have cooked up in the future.

| Oct 18, 2008

Adrienne Shelly's last piece has all the right ingredients.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 28, 2008

full of whiney characters that eventually make the right decisions only after an unprecedented amount of hand-wringing

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2008

It's a love letter of the first degree, the kind that rises out of trepidation and confusion, almost by accident, with a sudden force of absolute clarity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2008

Waitress is a beautiful and poignant swan song for what should have been the vanguard of a blossoming career.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Keri Russell sparkles in this story about a piemaker who longs for something more filling.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 2, 2008

Waitress combines quirky humour with an added and enhanced sense of emotional truth.

Full Review | Jan 15, 2008

Completely inauthentic in every detail--the cinematic equivalent of an apple pie from Perkins.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 11, 2007

Despite Shelly's twist of disturbing fate, WAITRESS will be a memorialized nod of a little gem of a film that delivered a slice of pie to our hungry, entertaining expectations

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 6, 2007