Metacritic reviews

Witty and moving, this is a low-budget Brit triumph that marks its director as a talent to watch.

While Adult Life Skills could often use more focus, it digs deep to achieve a sense of catharsis, and as a woman who's trying to be invisible, but can't isolate herself forever, Whittaker (currently the Doctor on “Doctor Who”) carries the film.

The main reason people check this out will be Whittaker’s new role as Doctor Who. And she doesn’t disappoint. She gives this walking-wounded woman a hint of the coquette she never realized she was, a smartness informed by sadness and — with a little boy she’s utterly ill-qualified to baby sit, much less mentor — a purpose.

How much you love this low-budget British effort will depend on your tolerance to quirkiness.

It is a kooky, touching, continually droll comedy drama that treads simultaneously familiar and unusual ground in its exploration of grieving for a sibling, more specifically a twin.

A relentlessly quirky British comedy-drama that demonstrates why more is not always more.

While its protagonist is believably eccentric, the people surrounding her look more like transparent plot devices the more of them we meet.

For the most part, the film is similarly content to repeat the past, all the way through to its predictable liberating-feel-good wrap-up.

Anna feels more like a device than a person, a collection of eccentric behaviors (her job involves counting molehills) that support an aesthetic of excessive cuteness.

The film uses the grieving process to lend the proceedings a sense of unearned emotional gravitas.