Jason Reitman and Charlize Theron are bang on form in this bleakly funny tale about a mum and her new night nannyThere are certain truths about new motherhood that are unassailable.
Things that lodge themselves in your psyche as permanently as the butternut squash stain on your last halfway decent T-shirt.
The bone-deep exhaustion.
The uneasy combination of anxiety and boredom.
The pressure to bring sexy back when it feels like someone has driven a combine harvester through your nethers.
All of which this latest collaboration between writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman nails with harrowing accuracy.It’s not exactly new territory.
But what makes Tully such a tragicomic triumph compared with the brittle perkiness of films like I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011) and the god-awful Motherhood (2009) is that the film is not afraid to mine some pretty dark thematic territory.
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