Entertainment Weekly - May 11, 2018

36 EW.COM MAY 11, 2018

Movies

motherhood and the sunny nanny who

swoops in to save the day—Mary Poppins

meets a sarcastic eye-roll emoji.Tully

is that...kind of. But it’s also something

weirder and ultimately more interesting.

Theron stars as Marlo, a former Brooklyn

free spirit who once upon a time got mar-

ried and moved to the suburbs and now

finds herself as a put-upon, stressed-out

mother of two with a third on the way. Her

husband, played (or rather, nicely under-

played) by Ron Livingston, means well, but

he’s largely absent at work all day while she

teeters on the knife’s edge of losing it,

whether it’s from her son incessantly kick-

ing the back of her car seat or the judgy

comments of other moms.

SOMETIMES A PINCH OF THE UNEXPECTED CAN MAKE

all the difference. Take the new Charlize Theron movie

Tully, which was written by Diablo Cody and directed

by Jason Reitman, the creative team behind 2007’sJuno

and 2011’sYoung Adult. Based on the trailers currently

in rotation on TV, the film looks like an acerbically

fizzy comedy about the stretched-thin hardships of

Mackenzie Davis and Charlize Theron

STARRING
Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis

DIRECTED BY

Jason Reitman

RATING
R

LENGTH

1 hr., 36 mins.

REVIEW BY

Chris Nashawaty@ChrisNashawaty

Tully

Edited By| KATIE HASTY @KATIEHASTY

KIMBERLY FRENCH/FOCUS FEATURES