Kirkus called the story achingly familiar.
One night, finding difficulty in sleeping on a futon, he happens to catch sight of her standing in the garden, singing an achingly melancholy song to the moon.
Although the quirky motifs and endearingly misspelt inscriptions are often playful and achingly funny, the artist never shied away from the big issues.
It's achingly beautiful, disarmingly intimate, simply the best-kept secret in popular music today.
The song achingly and artfully describes frustration that the singer's love and trust is unreciprocated due to a prior bad experience in the other's past.
She extends the tradition of the confessional (i.e. achingly open, unafraid of intimacy) singer-songwriter, and is proud of that style and its continuation.
However, the reviewer praised the ending of the film, which she describes as achingly real and extraordinarily intense and effective.
The lyrical second subject is achingly tender, but does show signs of optimism, particularly when it recapitulates at the end of the movement.
