Couple more thoughts out of TIFF. These are more on the negative end of the spectrum.

IFC.com’s thoughts can be found here:

His dialogue is as crisp as ever, but sadly, it’s put in the mouths of mopey upwardly mobile types who deal with grief in the most self-destructive ways possible.

While the Seattle Times takes a contradictory position to that of yesterday’s thoughts from Hollywood and Fine:

Portman stars in Don Roos’ “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,” in what the festival is touting as her first grown-up starring role; she plays a young attorney and second wife grieving the loss of her infant. Nothing about this film rings true, starting with the way Portman’s character is written: We’re supposed to sympathize with her, because she’s the heroine and because (text removed due to spoilers) Perhaps a warmer, more skilled actress could have made something of this (maybe), but Portman’s performance is on-the-surface glamorous yet flat-voiced, teenagy and ineffective.