The best American movie of the year. Has a subtext so powerful that it reaches out and pulls you under. Even when the surface is tranquil, you know in your guts what's at stake.

Beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama.

It's simply a quiet and heartbreaking look at the dynamics of one family. That's the beauty of it.

There may be bigger, costlier, weighter films this year. There's none lovelier.

Satisfying in every respect, it's a piece of blue-collar chamber music, never treating the characters cheaply, allowing them a complex entwinement of emotions.

A humanistic gem of a movie, with unforgettable performances from Linney and Ruffalo.

Few films have explored the complicated bonds of love and resentment between brother and sister with such delightful honesty.

It's rare to get a good movie about the touchy adult relationship of a sister and brother. Rarer still for the director to be more fascinated by the process than the outcome. This is one of the best movies of the year.

A drama that embraces the ambiguities and contradictions of family ties and human nature in all its irrational glory.

It's a movie about having a sibling and all of the pain, joy, love and anxiety that that entails: a movie, in other words, for almost everyone.

It's a rare thrill -- in this cinematically hollow year.

Melancholy little gem of a movie.

Maybe these lives are, objectively speaking, inconsequential. But they have a resonance that big, sappy "relationship" pictures ought to envy.

A sensitive, intimate, enormously touching drama.