I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.