Wiig's underplaying, a repressed otherworldly Sissy Spacek sort of thing, has its moments of humor, but this proud, simple woman is never for an instant comic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 1, 2014

It doesn't take long for us to get lost in Wiig's thorough portrayal of a dowdy housekeeper who must soldier on in the face of a cruel prank to find some kind of love in her life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 1, 2014

Liza Johnson's nicely tuned, and turned, adaptation of the Alice Munro short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage."

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2014

We've never seen a protagonist quite like Johanna, who on the one hand personifies female self-abnegation at its most domesticated, but on the other embodies the sheer will at its most stubborn.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 24, 2014

The buttoned-up, buttoned-lipped Wiig seems to have landed in the Midwest from Mars, as though, like David Bowie before her, she's The Maid Who Fell to Earth

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 18, 2014

Rather than sifting through the emotional layers of a surprisingly determined young woman, more often the scenes feel drained of life.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2014

The people on screen are all worth watching, as is Johnson's directorial career.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2014

This jumbled drama gets decent mileage out of actress Kristen Wiig but is hindered by a subpar script that fails to translate Munro's characterizations and intricate plotting to the screen.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2014

What's supposed to be guileless and unformed starts to feel like shtick.

Full Review | Apr 14, 2014

Wiig offers a performance that is both fragile and vibrant, beautifully portraying Johanna's transformation from wallflower to risk taker.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 11, 2014

This is a movie in which our worst pulp expectations are constantly being upended.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 11, 2014

Watching Kristen Wiig's lived-in and alive performance as this blunt, practical, and yet totally innocent woman is to be in the presence of something very very special.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 11, 2014

It's amazing how much this film does accomplish, given its modesty of both means and scale.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2014

I hope this is Wiig's last sad-sack turn; it seems a waste to ignore those comic chops in the pursuit of this sort of Serious Acting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2014

Too bad "blahship" isn't an option. Because that sums it up.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 10, 2014

An absorbing, messy, modest story of damaged relationships.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2014

A preposterous wish-fulfillment fantasy with an enormous void at its center.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 10, 2014

Hateship Loveship is unimpressive as a whole, but it's stitched together with small, memorable touches [...]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 9, 2014

Kristin Wiig's turn as a dowdy caretaker is the highlight of this contemporary American take on Cinderella.

Full Review | Apr 7, 2014

It ultimately offers little more than another opportunity for famous actors to indulge their fetishistic, inadvertently condescending impressions of "everyday" people.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 6, 2014