
In this joyous coming-of-age story, a precocious 20-year-old woman searches for love and freedom in a surprising sex-positive community. Living with her mother in rural Maine, spirited Michelle Smith is legally blind and diagnosed with autism, but she chases big dreams against all odds.... (Full plot summary below)
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In this joyous coming-of-age story, a precocious 20-year-old woman searches for love and freedom in a surprising sex-positive community. Living with her mother in rural Maine, spirited Michelle Smith is legally blind and diagnosed with autism, but she chases big dreams against all odds.
Leave your thoughts about Best and Most Beautiful Things.
| New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMs. Smith does not fit easily into any box, and neither does this thought-provoking film. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughBy the end of this film, your heart will have had a workout. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonThis lively portrait of a young woman with disabilities and her ordinary hopes and dreams is an explicit, engaging challenge to our ideas of what 'normal' is. |
| NOW TorontoNorman WilnerShe's a terrific subject, and Zevgetis has crafted a film that is, much like Michelle herself, a lot more complex than it might initially seem. |
| Entertainment WeeklyKevin P. SullivanThe film’s overall effect lets the person — not the condition — be the real story, one that’s worth sharing. |
| New York Daily NewsAriel ScottiIt would have served the film well if more time and focus was devoted to Michelle's life today and how she's managing. |
| Village VoiceDaphne HowlandThe doc is gorgeously filmed, well edited, and works in close-up, but the result is more voyeuristic than revealing, except to show that desolation is among those things that cannot be seen or touched. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSmith is certainly a worthy advocate for the mainstreaming and acceptance of “outcasts” or “others.” Unfortunately, Zevgetis doesn’t dig deeply enough here. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckProves alternately inspiring and depressing even while skirting uncomfortably close to voyeurism. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenWith a documentary as flabby but well-meaning as Best and Most Beautiful Things, you have to savor the small stuff. |