The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.