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Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: "The movie is neither short of, nor in the least bit coy about, sex and sex talk. It treats and presents both in a way that is entirely candid, frank ..." Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: "The Sessions" is a pleasant shock: a touching, profoundly sex-positive film that equates sex with intimacy, tenderness and emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It lacks the fullness of the best films of its ilk, chief among them Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot. But Lewin lets his eye wander pleasingly. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: The Sessions is fascinating, informative, engaging and heartbreaking stuff. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: "The Sessions" is admirable, and often enjoyable, yet self-limiting in concept. It's exactly about what it sets out to be about-no less but no more. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's really a three-character comedy/drama, with the best elements of both genres. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It might just be the most poignant, moving film ever made about one man's surprisingly noble efforts to get laid. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: In Ben Lewin's The Sessions, John Hawkes takes on the kind of role that earns Academy Awards, in the kind of film that doesn't. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It's funny and well-meaning, with great performances, but the story plays out more like an Afterschool Special with full-frontal nudity. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The achievement of this simply told, exceptionally fine film is the clarity with which it portrays the drama of a good soul in an inert body. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Character actor John Hawkes is often cast as a frightening rustic (Winter's Bone, Martha Marcy May Marlene), but he gives a tender and witty performance here as Mark O'Brien. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: O'Brien was the subject of an Oscar-winning short "Breathing Lessons," and it seems likely that "The Sessions" will receive a few nominations of its own. It deserves them. Read more
Tom Charity, CNN.com: A very different kind of love story, breaking taboos lightly, with sensitivity and humor. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The Sessions is bracing. It's also one of the few movies to recognize that people with severe physical disabilities have sexual lives, too. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: An absolute delight. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The Sessions becomes a dance of joy in the midst of severe challenge, and a movie with a light spirit that lifts a tale of heavy fate. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Film.com: This is either a delicate subject or an unapologetically vital one, and the key to "The Sessions" is that [Ben] Lewin treats it as the latter. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: At once entirely frank and downright cuddly in the way it deals with the seldom-visited subject of the sex lives of people with disabilities... Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: In a country that embraces cinematic violence with such ease but blushingly prefers to keep sex in the shadows or under the sheets, the grown-up approach of "The Sessions" is rare. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Hawkes' performance is the must-see hook of The Sessions, but Hunt gives this funny, touching movie its soul. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: A funny, tender and mostly unsentimentalized movie about physical and emotional triumph. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: The movie is so clammily sensitive and tame that it stifles any strong response. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A movie like this is really built around a performance, and John Hawkes - so powerfully evil in "Winter's Bone" and "Martha Marcy May Marlene" - carries the film. Read more
Linda Holmes, NPR: The Sessions is probably the most lighthearted movie about sex and polio you'll see this year. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: It's strange to call a film with so much nudity and simulated sex "old-fashioned," but "The Sessions" nicely bridges that gulf. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: "The Sessions'' treats intimacy with an explicitness and honesty that's very rare in movies. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Using only his tilted head, his eyes, nose, and mouth and that quizzical voice, Hawkes brings O'Brien to life. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Forced to do all his acting with his face, Hawkes displays the kind of camera-arresting capability that has earned others Oscar nominations. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This film rebukes and corrects countless brainless and cheap sex scenes in other movies. It's a reminder that we must be kind to one another. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: John Hawkes does the kind of acting that awards were invented for in this exhilarating gift of a movie that's funny, touching and vital. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A sweet but minor fictional parable about the strange possibilities of love. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It sends viewers out of the theater with a heightened sense of the physical and a real feeling for all the things that sex means in human life. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: This frank, funny, tender film both asks and receives more from its sex scenes than any movie I've seen in a long time. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It has some difficult and heartfelt performances as well as moments of uncomfortable honesty, but ultimately writer-director Ben Lewin's film feels too slight, too pat, and too wildly overhyped out of its festival showings. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This is a crowd-pleaser of the finest sort. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: With its assertive hero and inclusive humor, "The Sessions" is an inspirational drama you can feel good about in the morning. Read more
Ian Buckwalter, The Atlantic: Achieves its sunny disposition by pulling punches. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Most often with The Sessions the blunt comedy outweighs the drift toward sanctimony. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: The joy of The Sessions goes beyond sexual healing. It makes physical intimacy far more a matter of the heart, and you won't be alone wiping an occasional tear. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Avoids the kind of squickyness that Hollywood usually drizzles over its uplifting movies about the physically challenged. Read more
Guy Lodge, Time Out: Lewin, who has fought his own lifelong polio battle, handles tricky material with a gentle, empathetic touch. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: It's an adult movie about an adult subject that upends the conventions of the sex comedy by investing them with solemn purpose. Fortunately, that turns out to be pretty funny in itself. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: A film of tenderness and humor married to the unlikeliest of subjects. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Hawkes and Hunt nobly tackle the physical demands their roles require ... Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Thanks to Lewin's light but assured touch, The Sessions never wears its theological preoccupations heavily, instead allowing transcendence to creep up on the audience quietly. Read more