86% Your Sister's Sister

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It certainly shows that fine films don't need big budgets, capturing some sweet lightning in an arresting bottle indeed.

Romantic, funny, surprising and thoroughly involving, Your Sister's Sister is the rare film you give yourself over to completely.

There's a nice, loose-limbed improvisatory feeling to "Your Sister's Sister," a quality that identifies it as the work of artisans, not assembly-line professionals.

"Your Sister's Sister" follows the indie-cinema blueprint to the letter with one exception: One of the film's characters is a lesbian.

By the end of this graceful little emotional farce, you know these people, their hopes and their panic, and you wish them the very best.

Shelton and her cast are so skillful that before long it seems we are not moviegoers watching a screen but flies on a wall witnessing real encounters and the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

One of the pleasanter surprises I've had this year.

Your Sister's Sister is a very sweet, very human feature that is also very, very funny. Much hay is made out of Mark Duplass' reaction shots, and that's just fine by me.

Behavior -- a mixture of scripted action and improvisation -- springs from a natural place, and while that can be uncomfortable as well as funny, it never rings false.

Such are the pleasures of improv when the players are as sharp and canny as they are here.

Lynn Shelton's fourth feature after her well-received "Humpday" demands more patience than understanding.

It's an oddly charming and entertaining film that works because it's willing to embrace the less savory side of its characters.

Although she would probably have liked a little more plot and polish, Nora Ephron would, I think, have approved.

Like a cool breeze, there is a light and fluffy feel to Your Sister's Sister that makes it the perfect palate cleanser in the middle of a hot, sweaty summer of explosions and superheroes.

There is so much good in the first hour that you can just about forgive its poorly written third act.

Involving and unexpected indie stands out from the crowd

There's a special satisfaction in hearing characters speak as if they just had arrived on the screen from the coffee shop adjacent to the movie theater.

This twisted tale has hidden agendas, pillow talk, latent romantic feelings, verbal fireworks and an ambiguous ending. As an avid bicyclist, the movie earns points from me in having Jack always wearing a helmet while riding. It loses its goodwill when...

Duplass is wonderful but even he can't shine as brightly as Emily Blunt.

This is exactly the kind of drama you thought that Hollywood couldn't make any more. The type of little lamb that would often be sacrificed in order to give us another bloated action mash-up like Transformers or Clash of the Titans.

Emily Blunt and Rosemarie DeWitt team up for good indie fun.

The film's conceits may be a bit too contrived and conventional, but nothing about these characters' interactions are forced. Your Sister's Sister is a welcome guest.

Good performances and a handy screenplay help things along, but these people find themselves more fascinating than I did.

Blunt and Duplass show enough star quality to ensure they will have plenty of work for many years to come.

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