Though the dialogue is mostly improvised, it feels rooted in the relationships as well as pleasingly spontaneous.

| Jul 31, 2018

It's comforting to watching dramatic and comic fiction regarding the things some of us actually have to deal with in life. When done right, those kinds of films are worth your time. YOUR SISTER'S SISTER happens to be one of them.

| Nov 8, 2013

Movies that start well and end badly occur often enough, and yet even knowing that is no preparation for what happens to Your Sister's Sister.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 8, 2013

Deceptively meandering and unexpectedly complex, Your Sister's Sister combines a poignant, funny directness with a teasing incompleteness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 6, 2012

Duplass is wonderful but even he can't shine as brightly as Emily Blunt.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2012

The film's conceits may be a bit too contrived and conventional, but nothing about these characters' interactions are forced. Your Sister's Sister is a welcome guest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 29, 2012

Good performances and a handy screenplay help things along, but these people find themselves more fascinating than I did.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 29, 2012

It certainly shows that fine films don't need big budgets, capturing some sweet lightning in an arresting bottle indeed.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 29, 2012

Romantic, funny, surprising and thoroughly involving, Your Sister's Sister is the rare film you give yourself over to completely.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 28, 2012

Much makes the viewer feel they're a fly on the wall, albeit a fly who has difficulty holding the camera steady or staying in focus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2012

The three leads gel intelligently in a scenario that might have been better suited to the stage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2012

This is a smart, moving film that's also very, very funny.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 28, 2012

The verbal agonisings are funny, skilful, revealing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2012

Likeable enough, but this is Shelton playing it safe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2012

This film should come with a warning: don't watch with a sibling. Unless you're up for some knowing elbow-digs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2012

"Your Sister's Sister" follows the indie-cinema blueprint to the letter with one exception: One of the film's characters is a lesbian.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2012

By the end of this graceful little emotional farce, you know these people, their hopes and their panic, and you wish them the very best.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2012

Shelton and her cast are so skillful that before long it seems we are not moviegoers watching a screen but flies on a wall witnessing real encounters and the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2012

Honest and free-spirited, this romantic comedy is filled with genuine and uncomfortable moments that can only come when a trio of talented actors ... are invited to make it up as they go along.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2012

All three performers add both tone and, when required, a fierce volume to their interplay.

| Jun 19, 2012