Lovely and Amazing 90
What a brilliant script. About three sisters and their mother, all of whom can't help obsessing about physical appearance. Sounds like such a chick movie, what, with its head-on confrontation of women's body issues and all. But it's not. Really. It's sarcastic as all get out. I laughed — a lot — mostly at Catherine Keener's acerbic, desperate wit. But more often than not, I was hit in the gut by the emotional vulnerability. I'm sure you've heard about the scene where Emily Mortimer, playing an actress, strips down and asks her lover to frankly appraise her body. It's every bit as brutal and brave as you've heard. Kudos, Miss Naked Mortimer. I'll never be able to look you in the eye again.

The movie's worth seeing just for the little actress playing the adopted sister, Raven Goodwin. Man, is she good! She's struggling with her nappy hair and her skin color. I'm telling you, she totally broke my heart.