Reviews for this film from our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Jason Bailey @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: There’s great sadness in The Sessions, and great humor as well. It’s a moving, sweet, beautiful little movie.
- Christopher Bourne @ Film-Forward
- Excerpt: Outside of some embellishing details and minor conflicts, The Sessions is entirely its premise, and offers almost nothing artistically outside of that. So while the film is well acted and is a smoothly pleasant experience, it doesn’t have a lasting resonance.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: The most grown-up depiction of emotionally meaningful sexual relations… that will have any sort of general distribution in U.S. movie theaters in this or any of the next several years.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A brave and bold movie that explores new territory in sexuality and spirituality.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …challenging, joyous, heartbreaking and quite funny…
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Whilst these are all positives in the film’s favour, the Sessions is ultimately much better in the abstract than it is in execution. Despite a trio of very engaging central performances from Hawkes, Hunt and Macy (who does a lot with very little screen time), not to mention a raft of solid turns from Moon Bloodgood, W. Earl Brown, Rhea Perlman and Robin Weigert, the film winds up being dramatically inert.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Practically ignores everything about O’Brien’s life except as it relates to his sexual odyssey, turning the life of the man into little more than a curio.
- Cynthia Fuchs @ PopMatters
- Kimberly Gadette @ doddle
- Excerpt: We love this hero for his indomitable spirit to take life head on, even given the ever-present shadow of death that mindfully holds him in a tight embrace … much tighter than any lover could.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: An adult film that approaches the serious subject of sex with refreshingly explicit honesty.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- [New – 3/21] | Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Nice performances and cute concept cannot overcome a limited screenplay.
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: Occasionally charming, but mostly it’s just awkward.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Jason McKiernan @ Next Projection
- Excerpt: There is something to be said for letting the beauty of a real-life story speak for itself, but the Sessions allows the story to unfold to the detriment of its intended themes.
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: Some wonderful performances take a film that seems slight on the surface, and sends it to a very warm and honest place
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
- Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
- Jonathan Richards @ www,jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Hunt is superb, and fearless.Hawkes Is confined to the expression he can discover in his face, and in a voice thinned by the ravages of polio.
- Jordan Richardson @ Canadian Cinephile
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: A movie that deals with a subject that is so common in movies and yet uncomfortable to most American minds: sex.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: Emotionally, The Sessions is just as bare as Helen Hunt’s character through most of the film.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Following the recent Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones comedy “Hope Springs,” here is another illuminating movie version of sexual therapy capable of cleansing its audience, regardless of their personal hang-ups.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A sharply writtem, skillfully executed adult crowd-pleaser.
