You know that thing when your heart is so unbelievably full but crushingly heavy at the same time because there’s magic in a little movie that has nothing to do with you but also feels like it’s commanding you to care about something as if nothing else in the world ever had before — none of those words feel like they’re capturing well enough what Minding the Gap does. Please please please please please (...) x10000~ see it see it see it see it see it

There’s a bit where someone says “she snapped” and it is the most satisfying - and only - instance of logic in this whole cosmos

There’s a lot to be said about evoking deep loneliness without losing a laugh, and capturing the emotional pull of having a cat that sounds trivial until it happens to you. 

I’d never given Melissa McCarthy much credit but this is a sensational turn, a really difficult and conflicted psyche played with gravity and outstanding sensibility. 

A really special film about words and trust, confidence and pride, with a performance to remember.