perceptively

While family dramas tackling drug addiction tend to deal with parents grappling with what’s best for their afflicted teens — “Beautiful Boy” and “Ben Is Back” among recent examples — “Stay Awake” perceptively flips the script.

As Feldon perceptively demonstrates in her astute memoir, part of "getting smarter" means coming to grips, even embracing our pasts, and all the while knowing better about the future.

I think it earns just about all of them, given how gradually and perceptively it tracks its characters’ journey, as friends and individuals.

Whenever I hear or see the name Justin Chang, I have an expectation of delight that I will be confronted by the clever, articulate and original expression of a perceptively brilliant mind.

Shepard writes perceptively, in “Phase Six,” about a lot of things.