Tully – 6

For two-thirds this was an unusually realistic take on motherhood, albeit focused on the negative, made enjoyable by the intelligent dialogue and the fine acting of Charlize Theron. Then the plot jumped off the tracks, and Theron’s character started acting in ways that made no sense. At the end, was it revealed that the nanny had been a figment of Marlo’s imagination? If so, much of what came before made no sense and I felt cheated. What I had been praising as “realistic” wasn’t realistic at all. And the more I looked back, the less I liked what I had seen.