'& Sons' Review: Bill Nighy's Bad Dad Leads a Strong, Surprising Family Drama

Family, already a complicated, often painful part of our lives, is made into something even more challenging in the dynamic, deceptively intriguing drama "& Sons." Directed by Pablo Tropero from a script he wrote with Sarah Polley that adapts the novel of the same name by David Gilbert, the film is a flawed yet fascinating film - although any review requires withholding a key piece of information about the plot to preserve the genuine experience of discovery that it provides. What can be disclosed is that, if you take the film fully at its word, a critical revelation makes the experience . . .