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Lovely & Amazing
Lions Gate Films Inc.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and nudity
Starring
Catherine Keener,
Brenda Blethyn,
Emily Mortimer,
Raven Goodwin,
Jake Gyllenhaal,
James LeGros,
Michael Nouri,
and
Dermot Mulroney
This finely observed comedy is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. (Lions Gate)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Nicole Holofcener
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Nicole Holofcener
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 26, 2002
Video: November 26, 2002
Theatrical: June 28, 2002
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
89 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Here is a movie that knows its women, listens to them, doesn't give them a pass, allows them to be real: It's a rebuke to the shallow "Ya-Ya Sisterhood."

90
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Emerges as something rare, an issue movie that's so honest and keenly observed that it doesn't feel like one. It earns its thesis statement through minute details and a unique grasp of a commonplace problem.

90
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Holofcener is honest enough to present human foibles, not just as weaknesses but as unexpected sources of humor and strength.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Like the best of personal, independent cinema -- it is both marvelously observed and completely individual. There is no film like this film, and that is something you don't hear every day.

88
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
A film of this sort demands superb, seemingly effortless acting, and Holofcener gets it at every turn.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Lord knows how Holofcener got the performance she did out of Goodwin, but the child actor's Annie, rude and unmanageable, is an extraordinarily rich and complicated figure.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Lovely & Amazing goes to the heart -- and face, and skin -- of a subject that's sure to ring true with women, and may even educate men.
80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
In this painfully funny and touching look at the vanities and insecurities that a mother (Brenda Blethyn) can pass on to her daughters in the name of love, writer-director Nicole Holofcener ("Walking and Talking") does a chick flick right.

80
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival.

80
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
What keeps all this from being trite and self-indulgent is Holofcener's willingness to make her characters' neuroses unattractive and self-destructive instead of cute and endearing.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Warmhearted and slightly edgy seriocomedy, these sisters experience some pretty entertaining ups and downs. Entertaining, that is, for people who appreciate irony.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
You simply want the story to go on and on. Let's hope that Holofcener's movies do: Her peregrinations through the lives of contemporary women know few screen equals.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The film is almost worth seeing just for the extraordinary scene in which a stark naked Mortimer has her movie star lover (Dermot Mulroney) deliver an exhaustive critique of her body's flaws.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The result is a gutsy little picture and a nice slice of life.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It is at times serious and at times very funny. But it is always perceptive, and that quality, more than any other, is what makes it worth a recommendation.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
This is a fine, funny, humane film.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
By turns cheerful, funny and melancholy, and at all times honest, Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing stands out in the current run of ensemble women's films.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
This trio is like a looser, funnier version of the family of wrecks in Woody Allen's ''Interiors.''

75
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
Delivers a surprising, moving portrait of contemporary womanhood.

75
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
About how women see themselves in terms of bodies, age and careers, but without all the "you go girl" tripe crammed into so many other movies of this ilk.

75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Watching Lovely and Amazing is like coming into a long-running, well-written television series where you've missed the first half-dozen episodes and probably won't see the next six.

70
New Times (L.A.)
Jean Oppenheimer
A modest, uneventful film, buoyed by fine, albeit low-key, performances and the ring of truth.
70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Holofcener's smart, acidic comedy Lovely and Amazing zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy.

70
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Warm, funny and often brutally honest profile of an aging divorcee and her three very different daughters.

70
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Engaging, intermittently insightful but too glib to wring full value out of its subject matter.

70
Time
Richard Schickel
This feels the way a lot of us are living now -- on desperation's dull yet still cutting edge.

70
Film Threat
Ellen Marshall
In this era of fluffy, big-budget Hollywood "chick flicks", it's pretty refreshing to find a film that genuinely deals with women, family, self-image and survival.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
There is a certain poignancy to a film that metaphorically examines the stages of a woman's life through each character.

50
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
Everyone in this chintz-covered world is a little creepy.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Holofcenere genuinely wants to make pictures that plug into an audience's need for intimate contemporary comedies. But she doesn't do enough to quench that thirst.


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