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Synopsis: Three sex addicts form a lasting friendship during group therapy in this wise and affecting character drama.

Aroview: By making the primary addiction of its central characters sex, Stuart Blumberg’s film prompts the audience to ask themselves about their attitudes to addiction — like “is sex addiction even a thing?” — instead of simply putting the barriers up. The good humour also helps.

Blumberg has also assembled some fine screen talent to play his anonymous group of misfits: Mark Ruffalo as the five year veteran whose sobriety is threatened by the emotional vulnerability required of a new relationship; Tim Robbins as the father figure for the group with a few secrets that he hasn’t been able to share and the very funny and sweet Josh Gad as the Jewish mummy’s boy who falls for Alecia Moore (pop star Pink), the tattooed hairdresser. This is a film that is wonderfully respectful of the twelve-step process and the difficulties of addiction and recovery at the same time as being very funny. One of my small highlights of the year, this one. ~ Dan Slevin