Film Review – Tully

The last collaboration between director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody was 2011’s “Young Adult,” which was a masterful take on arrested development and habitual behavior, emerging as one of the best films of that year, also giving star Charlize Theron a chance to shine dramatically in previously unthinkable ways. The pair reunites for “Tully,” which also brings back Theron for this study of motherhood as its most suffocating, exposing the brutal realities of parenthood as an all-consuming, all-distorting job. “Tully” plays a specific game of misdirection, but it’s another remarkably observed picture from Reitman and especially Cody, who saves her spot as one of the most perceptive writers working today, crafting a funny, frightening look at grind of parenting, cohabitation, and postpartum depression, managing to remain as real as it gets when it comes to the details of frustration and fatigue. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com