Adult Life Skills is a wobbly but winsome film about pain and the friends who pull us through kicking and screaming.

Jodie Whittaker's performance humanizes the film's troubled protagonist better than the story.

This is one of those so-called British comedies that is not remotely clever or amusing, even in the rare moments when you can decipher what comes out of the mouths of actors who sound like they could be from Mars.

Jodie Whittaker’s commanding lead turn aside — is the central pleasure of Adult Life Skills: how it sort of sneaks up on you when it comes to the power of its skillfully-performed emotional beats...