Labor Day

Kanadensaren Jason Reitman överraskar med en klassisk melodram som låter Stockholmssyndromet stå i centrum.

...Frank is mopping the floor...and—in the most howlingly funny seduction scene in recent memory—sensually squashing peaches into pie filling, his mad baking skills an irresistible aphrodisiac for the lonely divorcée putting him up.

Frank is played by Tom Lapinski in these scenes, a dead ringer for Brolin whose casting deserves an Oscar...

...the awkward, sad-eyed heart of the film, whose central coming-of-age thread — located in that Amblin heyday...— gives the film a warm, welcome Spielbergian spin.

It's brilliantly executed, from the gliding camera and the poise of staging to Rolfe Kent's score...