Paul Rudd is mainly the straight man in this wan, sentimental, occasionally very funny comedy.

NEWYORKER: Role Models

Swanberg makes James merely a man stolid, ambitious, capable, sentimental, and self-absorbed.

NEWYORKER: Nights and Weekends

Its central relationship, between an upper-middle-class man and his working-class lover, has been described as sentimental, its happy ending dismissed as wish-fulfilment.

ECONOMIST: Musing on an English master