Unrealistic and unsatisfying.

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2020)

I had heard such rave comments about this movie, I wanted it to be fantastic. (I don't watch many movies anymore, but this one attracted me by some of the reviews I read). Instead, I found the movie unsatisfying and somewhat boring, actually. I did not feel that the flame war between the divorcing couple (and between their attorneys!) was either compelling or realistic, but was annoying and repetitive.. The acting was competent, but a bit over the top for my taste.
The premise: couple still has affection for each other, but there's too much baggage, so they have to separate. They are both intelligent, so it's unbelievable that the wife wouldn't have communicated her dissastisfaction long before, and also that the husband would be so clueless as not to notice there were issues.
They are both overly consumed with getting custody of their son - it's their only important goal apparently. In the real world this could have been worked out as a joint custody agreement, regardless of where the parents chose to live. The first half of the movie seemed brilliant, then it dropped the ball. Nasty fight between the couple, and between their attorneys. The guy caves in; gives up his career and moves to LA because his ex-wife wants it. She is an insufferable whiner. And a corny ending of their son finally learning to read at the age of 8 - what, he's a dyslexic? And what does he read? The blurb from the beginning of the movie where the wife wrote down all the things she loved about her "soon to be ex" husband. How cute? NOT. A cheap and cheesy cop-out ending.