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"They closed ranks, basically, through loyalty to their sister which is admirable and I understand."

The “Common Side Effects” writers go to admirable lengths to explain why a cure-all mushroom could be hazardous; violence would soar, the medicine could fall into the wrong hands, evildoers would never die.

Fans are invited to stand up and dance along, which is equally admirable and hilarious.

The debate between them is handled with admirable complexity, but the characters don’t have enough room to develop beyond the central argument of the play.

But when the movie reaches an admirable capacity with its ideas about parenthood, authoritarianism, mortality and connection, it falters in bringing everything to the reverberating conclusion its discomfiting first two-thirds merits.