AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

SnoopyStyle The Travis family has to deal with the popular athletic older son Matt's suicide. Tim (Emile Hirsch) is trying to live with everybody's sympathies. Mother Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) starts smoking marijuana. Father Ben (Jeff Daniels) abandons work and spends his days in the park. Sister Penny (Michelle Williams) returns home from college on occasions.I like Tim and Sandy's journey in dealing with the lost in the first half. It would be a fine quiet small indie if that's the movie. However writer/director Dan Harris wants this movie to be about secrets. He holds all of it back until the second half. It leaves the first half with an emptiness like the movie is refusing to let the audience into the story. Once the reveals start happening, it diminishes the power of the lost somehow. It tries to give it meaning and loses its value.

xaniver This is quite possibly my all-time favorite film. I have watched and re-watched this and discover something new every time. At it's most basic, Imaginary Heroes is a dissection of an upper middle- class family struggling through a major loss of a loved one. As the various - and brilliantly portrayed - characters deal with this loss, the various layers of the story are peeled away, revealing issue upon issue in this seemingly normal suburban household.Sigourney Weaver is as mesmerizing as always but it's Emile Hirsch who steals the show here, and who absolutely stole my heart with his portrayal of a troubled teen pianist. And before you jump to conclusions and roll your eyes at the 'troubled teen' cliché, just know that this movie is incredibly brave, broaching themes and topics I have never seen before or since in a film.Just writing this review makes me want to re-watch this outstanding movie for the umpteenth time. If you're a fan of dramas and don't mind sniveling into a tissue or two, then I cannot recommend this film enough!

juneebuggy Not exactly the happiest movie, it's a suburban drama along the lines of The Ice Storm or American Beauty combining dark humour with tragedy just not quite as well as those movies did.Still strong performances especially from Sigourney Weaver who gives a penetrating portrait as the mother of this dysfunctional clan as we follow year in the life of her family, left devastated by the suicide of the eldest son, a champion swimmer. Jeff Daniels is, wow, quite an a-hole here. Very unlikeable and unredeemed by the end. He shows his pain by verbally striking out at his family. Emile Hirshe is young here but does a fantastic job and I really enjoyed the relationship he had with his mother. 8/20/14

alexis_cogan Before Barton jumps all over my remarks, let's all just keep in mind that opinions are like asses, we all have them.....I loved Sigourney Weaver & Jeff Daniels, I loved the dialogue and thought the acting was sublime. Downplayed just perfectly and understated. Unlike some others, I did NOT find this @ all predictable.I found Sigourney's role refreshingly humorous and realistic, especially her scene confronting the bully in the trailer.I found it enjoyable and wasn't anticipating recommending this to all and sundry. This is why there are different flavors of ice cream, something to please everyone...