After the success of “Bridesmaids” and Kristen Wiig’s 2012 departure from “Saturday Night Live,” many people thought she was on the fast track to become an enormous movie star. That didn’t happen, but ...

Films about mental health are already dealing with a touchy subject that requires a deft hand and sensitivity. When the film is a comedy, the difficulties are compounded and the need for sensitivity ...

Plot point: Alice spends most of her abundant lottery earnings on a television show that she makes up as she goes along. The explanation: People with borderline personality disorder often exhibit ...

Our post-“Bridesmaids” love affair with Kristen Wiig has been tested a few times in the eccentric choices she has made since, but never more so than with “Welcome to Me.” The quirky, clueless Plain ...

While Kristen Wiig fully commits to her bizarre, mentally ill character in Welcome to Me, the result still feels more like an extended sketch than a movie. There's no denying that Wiig is drawn to ...

Beyond the valley of black comedy, there is a place where laughter and horror mingle freely. In this place roams the original British version of “The Office,” and the amazing Scorsese-De Niro “King of ...

As Kristen Wiig continues to expand her post-Saturday Night Live career with an eclectic range of projects, there is one moment in her upcoming film, Welcome to Me, where she goes even further, with a ...

Wiig plays Alice Klieg, a failed veterinary assistant first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her teens and now living on disability benefits, mandatory therapy and medication from her controlling ...

There are certainly moments within Welcome to Me, Shira Piven's quirky account of a mentally unstable lottery winner, that play like a comedy along with elements in star Kristen Wiig's own performance ...