Scanners' Jim Emerson on The Kids Are All Right

Jim Emerson, a colleague of Roger Ebert at the Chicago Sun-Times, writes one of the sharpest movie blogs out there, Scanners. And so it's a particular pleasure to see that he's written a long and very insightful appreciation of Lisa Cholodenko's current hit comedy, entitled The Kids Are All Right: Taut editing, stunning effects.

Here's one of the early paragraphs from the piece:

The film stars three of the best actors in the known universe -- Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo -- along with two excellent young performers, Mia Wasikowska (with whom I was already smitten after her role as the testy teenage gymnast in "In Treatment") and Josh Hutcherson, as the titular "kids." But what we found ourselves talking the most about was how well-made a movie it was -- how smartly written, directed, shot and edited. There were times you would have thought we were talking about the techniques of a complex action-thriller or science-fiction extravaganza.

Oh, and in case you haven't seen the film yet, be aware that Emerson's excellent article contains [SPOILERS!]. You have been warned.