The title says it all

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2000)

Indeed, this is as good as it gets. It couldn't get much better, because this film makes you glad. Glad that you're not HIM, glad that SHE's there to strike with her brilliant acting and beautiful face. Compulsive and endearing drama about a wicked and lonely man duking it out with a dog and his gay keepers, a young woman who he clearly fancies and her little son whose illness keeps her in constant fear of losing him. Strange behaviours all around, but Nicholson really takes the price: his best role ever, and the Academy Award he won for it is well deserved.