The flexible digressive style enables Troche and Turner to dive a little deeper under Go Fish's seemingly light, shimmery surface and ponder on some weightier questions about lesbian identity -- but without letting the movie get too hung up on them.

The co-writer and director, Guinevere Turner, reveals herself as an extremely watchable star in her own movie, which showcases her comic and dramatic talent.

Director/writer Rose Troche has made one of the best relationship movies of the year.

Troche goes for a sensitive and honest depiction of character needs, delivering a distinct study of community and concern, and doing so with some sense of style and humor to keep the endeavor as cinematic as possible.