His wry, wisenheimer humor is good medicine for our cruel but tenderhearted community.

NPR: Kristin Chenoweth Is 'A Little Bit Wicked'

Along the way, she falls in love with one of the participants, Michel (Carlo Brandt), a hard-nosed, tenderhearted small-time racketeer who is soon to be released.

NEWYORKER: Free Hands

Braff eventually takes the movie to emotional places where only the extremely tenderhearted will follow, but there are a lot of nice moments that resonate, and a beautiful soundtrack of moody, interior music.

NEWYORKER: Garden State

But then, at the most unexpected moments, a tenderhearted sympathy, raw and sudden, would rise in him, and he would plunge his face into my neck, sniff deeply and kiss, tickling me with his mustache.

NEWYORKER: Naima

The film, which Judd Apatow produced, and which Segel co-wrote with the director, Nicholas Stoller, is a kind of commonplace contemporary American epic leisurely, episodic but pungent, densely populated, consistently funny, and, in the Apatovian spirit, foulmouthed and tenderhearted.

NEWYORKER: Five-Year Engagement, The