The title character, played by Julianne Moore at her most emotionally complex and luminous, is going through all the difficulties and indignities of middle age: watching friends get laid off while struggling to save for her own retirement, trying not to interfere in her adult children's complicated lives, and finding new romance with a divorced man with plenty of his own baggage. It's both heartwarming and heartbreaking as the movie meditates on connections longed for, lost, and occasionally found. The movie is filled with those bursts of intermittent intense emotions — joy, regret, sorrow, love — that pepper our own lives, making it a truly rich, subtle movie experience.