NY TIMES: John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph are "scene stealers"

By Peter Bowen | May 04, 2009 @ 09:06 am

In this Sunday's New York Times' special section on summer movies, Karen Durbin picked out five actors whose performances deserve special notice. Two of them are really a couple--John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph in Away We Go. Durbin writes:

In  “Away We Go,” they are both subtle, working off each other like expert musicians who have been playing together for years. Her Verona is the more opaque; she’s quiet and, without seeming sour or depressed, doesn’t smile a lot. During a visit with Burt’s narcissistic parents, she’s polite but just reserved enough that we know she thinks they are awful. We come to feel the weight of their situation — her advancing pregnancy, their lack of a proper home — in her pensiveness.