Four Good Days

Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of this shallow movie is left unexplored: why doesn't Deb look in the mirror at her role in Molly's addiction?

Mila Kunis does her finest acting work alongside Glenn Close...

It is a couple of good performances in a movie that feels like we have seen it a thousand times before.

The subject matter will certainly resonate for many, but even with its fact-based underpinnings Four Good Days feels like a bit of a Frankenstein monster, stitched together from past addiction movies.

Character actor Stephen Root, 69, plays the largely understanding stepfather in this contemporary tearjerker released in the shadow of the Oscar-nominated Hillbilly Elegy.

These are important stories that should be seen, but audiences need more than scripts that are primarily acting exercises.

Four Good Days treats addiction in an intelligent way, has two good performances, but pulls the ripcord on a more daring ending.

The film offers a compassionate if shallow look at recovery and regaining trust.

Close and Kunis make Four Good Days watchable, even good, but not even they can save it completely.

Kunis’ performance is raw and ugly in just the way it needs to be.