Last week I saw Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right. I feel like this is destined to be one of those overrated underrated kind of movies — a movie that gets more love than it deserves and then faces a fierce backlash which it also doesn’t deserve.
I thought the film was solid, buoyed into greatness by its no-weak-link ensemble cast. There was one surprise plot twist (given away in the trailer — that’s why I didn’t post it) that I found mostly unnecessary and distracting, but then that twist turned out to be pretty much the plot of the whole movie, which I also found unnecessary and distracting. What can I say? It’s not the Lesbian Family Meets The Sperm Donor Before The Daughter Goes Off To College story I would have told, but Lisa Cholodenko’s gotta be Lisa Cholodenko.
Every year I keep a running tally and ranking of how much I like every movie I see because apparently I can’t just enjoy anything anymore:
1. Winter’s Bone
2. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
3. How To Train Your Dragon
4. Greenberg
5. Toy Story 3
6. The Kids Are All Right
7. Mother and Child
8. Shutter Island
9. Please Give
10. Splice
11. Date Night
12. Iron Man 2
13. Kick-Ass
14. Sex and the City 2
15. Hot Tub Time Machine
16. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
