"Alexander Payne's first feature in seven years seems much less marked by schadenfreude than his previous efforts," writes Leo Goldsmith at Not Coming to a Theater Near You. "At times, it seems downright sincere, narrating as it does the tale of a busy, midlife crisis-ready lawyer from Hawaii — played by reliable George — whose life is upended when his wife Elizabeth suffers a waterskiing accident and is stricken with a coma from which she will never recover. Add to his woes a pair of unruly daughters, each on opposite sides of puberty, a super-important real estate deal in which his family plans to sell off some pristine beachfront wilderness to some kind of resort hotel developer, and the revelation that his wife was cheating on him before her accident, and one finds a set-up for a film that's very much of a piece with Payne's other portraits of dysfunctional middle-aged white guys…...