Decoding Annie Parker

...movie’s main point of value is in Morton’s performance. The ever-intrepid actress is unsparing in depicting the sufferings that are so inextricable from the successful (or even, as it happens, the unsuccessful) treatment of cancer.

...Bernstein indulges in the occasional gallows humor, such as a scene where a neurotic Annie (Samantha Morton), obsessed with examining herself for lumps, offers to check her husband, Paul (Aaron Paul)...