Grandma

...an artful, funny, endlessly surprising little acting and writing showcase that shows just how far it’s possible for writers to take tired, clichéd characters, by treating them as human beings...

I walked into a screening of the film a mild skeptic, and I left nearly in tears, and grateful for where writer-director Paul Weitz and a remarkable cast led by Lily Tomlin took me.

Its humour comes mainly from the culture clash between Elle’s intellectual strain of hippy-tinged liberalism and her granddaughter’s youthful outlook.

...it’s a movie that creditably sticks to its ideological guns on the issue of women’s right to decide.

...[Tomlin] owns the show in writer/director Paul Weitz’s smart, deep, funny, and moving 'Grandma', which I personally take as a hopeful sign of intelligent life in the universe.

...this tale of a woman’s right to choose (her partners, her career path, her reproductivity – her life) is one of the most rewardingly progressive comedies of the year...