It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.