and Edmonton International Film Festival before being given a limited theatrical release in the US, where it grossed $180,503. Critical reception On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, P.S. has an approval rating of 54% based on 81 reviews. The site’s critics consensus reads, "Laura Linney is as watchable as ever, but the melancholy P.S. never finds its footing.” On Metacritic, the film has a score of 55 out of 100 based on 28 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote the film shows a "contempt for its central character in specific and for women of a certain age in general" and that it lacks "the energy of Mr. Kidd's first feature." While Dargis noted Linney "easily negotiates the story's emotional and narrative switchbacks, sliding from fury to hurt like rain on a window, she can't fashion a living, breathing, believable human being from such a shabbily patched-together conceit." Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "Filmmaker Dylan Kidd assayed male-arrested development quite brilliantly in 2002's Roger Dodger, and at some moments, his follow-up film hints at a scabrous female reinterpretation. But Kidd and co-writer Helen Schulman...smooth every edge, and P.S. goes disappointingly soft despite two dynamite lead performances." in a more positive review, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film three out of a possible four stars. He commented Kidd "delivers a sexy, funny surprise package that resonates with long-buried emotions. Grace, away from the sitcom slick of That '70s Show, shows killer charm and rare sensitivity. But [it] ... is Linney's show, and she makes it hilarious and haunting." Roger Ebert of Ebert and Roeper also awarded the film three out of four stars and compared the film to Birth, also released in 2004. Ebert wrote, "Both films are fascinating because they require us to see the younger character through two sets of eyes – our own, which witness an attractive woman drawn to a younger male, and the women's, which see a lost love in a new container." Awards and nominations Laura Linney was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, and she shared Best Actress honors with Emmanuelle Devos at the Mar del Plata Film Festival, where the film was nominated for Best Picture. Topher Grace won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures Award for Best Breakthrough Performance by an