However, the reviewer praised the ending of the film, which she describes as "achingly real" and "extraordinarily intense and effective".

The kind of mother-daughter strife that seems so cutely contrived in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" here feels achingly real.

In a starred review, the industry publication Booklist called the book, "lively, funny, gritty, and achingly real," comparing Ginder to novelists Junot Diaz and Michael Chabon.

For that, much credit is due to the immensely compelling cast of characters... Battlestar Galactica burns with a combustive mixture of political turmoil and human drama that is as achingly real and relevant as anything on television.

Like the freckles, it made her - not unremarkable, as I had feared to find her; but marvellously, achingly real.

Ms. Wilkins is the achingly real representation of the eternal broken heart that encompasses all the bright lights on Broadway.

If Ira Levin's story shrewdly taps into every pregnant woman's fears about the stranger growing inside her, Mia Farrow gives those fears an achingly real and human force".

StirUng Amos' sympathy was achingly real "There, there," he said soothingly.

Both the clumsy affair and its muddling consequences feel achingly real.