Dolan's vision, however distracted, remains strong ( ... ) As a writer, director, producer, and actor, he throws himself into the film's disjointed spaces, highlighting the ways in which multiple and contradictory states can be inhabited simultaneously

As a director, Mr. Dolan has a freewheeling style, and he's self-dramatizing enough to want to call attention to it without being too much of a visual show-off.

This just might be as close as we'll ever get to seeing "Catcher in the Rye" on the screen. Truly hilarious.

I Killed My Mother faithfully renders the love-hate tug-of-war between mothers and sons: smashed crockery and all.