This is one of those movies that you know is great as you are watching it because of the simplistic way of filming and non-spoken acting in family dynamics. It's also one of those movies that I didn't find nearly as great of a watch as I knew the filmmaking was. That's not to say it was a bad movie. I enjoyed it and thought that the family dynamics portrayed were very honest and real. I would say it was a good movie - but not great like most critics would promote. The story is very simple and its really the characters in the family that carry the whole thing. The one knock I can honestly make is that this movie did not need to be nearly 2 hours long. They could have shaved off like 20 minutes and it would have been much better.
I would somewhat recommend people checking this out. Again - it's not a bad movie. It's just not a Best Picture worthy movie in my book even with the great style of simple, basic filmmaking that it went with.
