Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]f the humor draws them in, it's the emotional honesty that will get people talking about THE SURROGATE....Central to Lewin's achievement is a towering performance from John Hawkes..." - 01/25/2012 Box Office

"[S]urprisingly accessible and emotionally effective....[A] well-acted and constructed film..." - 01/23/2012 Hollywood Reporter

"[Hawkes delivers] an extraordinary performance, from the pinched voice conveying anxiety with humor to the twisted posture that can express, almost simultaneously, the agony of severe disability and the ecstasy of human contact." - 10/18/2012 Wall Street Journal

"O'Brien chronicled his surrogacy experience with such humor and intellect that empathy, not pity prevailed....That sensibility buoys writer-director Ben Lewin's screenplay as well." - 10/18/2012 Los Angeles Times

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Helen Hunt provides a performance of tact and delicacy." - 10/24/2012 Chicago Sun-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." - 10/19/2012 New York Times

"[A]dmirably frank and funny about sex...sweet instead of raunchy, and plaintive instead of snickering and vulgar." -- Grade: B - 10/18/2012 A.V. Club

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[Lewin] has crafted an exhilarating gift of a movie that's funny, touching and vital. And Hawkes does the kind of acting that awards were invented for." - 10/25/2012 Rolling Stone

"Thankfully, plenty of laughs do ensue in THE SESSIONS, in which John Hawkes doesn’t play as much as channel the late poet and author Mark O’Brien." - 10/26/2012 Washington Post

4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]errific though Hawkes is, he's flanked by two equally impressive performers." - 01/31/2013 Total Film

"[Hunt] is so good here it's almost a rediscovery....[An] undeniably endearing piece..." - 02/01/2013 Sight and Sound