At its best, it sports a forgiving humanism - none of these people are all that bad, they're just wounded and needy and uncertain.

The director, Matt Reeves, has a master plan, and it's amazing how a movie with so many detours can arrive so convincingly at its destination.

The Pallbearer redeems itself through Paltrow's playing Julie as awkwardly as Schwimmer does Tom, and just as endearingly.

...the picture benefits substantially from its raft of agreeable elements...