Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.