Keenly performed, funny and poignant, and knows exactly where it's going.

Although the movie goes a little flabby in the middle, Bodies, Rest & Motion is generally both entertaining and insightful and superbly acted by all four main performers.

The result is a unique film that both invites its audience to understand its characters intimately and yet to see them at a distance—as a phenomenon or as emblematic of a time of life.

It is, far more passionately and more convincingly, a generational anthem, aimed with a bombardier’s strategic precision at those in their late 20s and early 30s, the baby boom stragglers who will bitterly have to do more with less.