The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) is a dutiful suburban housewife with a sleep disorder. After her grouchy older husband (Alan Arkin) starts having an affair with a younger woman, Pippa becomes increasingly attracted to her emotionally-damaged neighbour (Keanu Reeves).

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times: This is a brittle, sometimes funny study in fragmentation. The film is so obsessed with the virtues of guiltlessness - as Pippa tries to absolve herself of everything from a gold-digging marriage to a mother's death - that it is all, [writer/ director Rebecca] Miller makes clear, about guilt and its stubborn sticking power. (Verdict: three stars out of five)

Kevin Maher, the Times: Maria Bello excels as Pippa's eccentric, amphetamine-addicted mom, seen in painful flashback as the thundering source of our heroine's angst. And Zoe Kazan is fearsome as Pippa's own daughter Grace, whose wild, primal resentment of her mother sets the narrative up nicely for a three-hankie finale. On the downside, the romance doesn't exactly sparkle. Reeves in particular is cruelly miscast as Pippa's lovematch. (Verdict: three stars out of five) ·