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Humpday succeeds, often beautifully, by grounding its risque premise in the awkwardness and humor of real people trying their damnedest to communicate. A lot.
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91Anna's thoughts matter because, as played by the wonderfully nuanced newcomer Alycia Delmore, the no-bull responses of this perceptive woman are a key to Humpday's sly, wised-up feminist outlook.
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91Humpday carefully raises the stakes until it hits a finale loaded with humor, tenderness, and delicious ambiguity. It's like "Old Joy" by way of Judd Apatow.
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90The movie's unblinking observation of a friendship put to the test is amused, queasy making, kindhearted and unfailingly truthful.
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90May not be the single best movie I've seen so far this year--though it's certainly a contender for the title--but it's without doubt the most surprising.
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88Funny, yes, but also observant and thought-provoking.
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88Humpday mixes hilarity with upset as the irresistible force of male pride meets the immovable object of sexual identity.
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83There's a wonderful chemistry between them -- though the film wisely allows Duplass and Delmore an equally intimate connection. Choices like that enable the modest Humpday to capture the lives of its protagonists more credibly than any Hollywood-manufactured comedy of recent vintage.
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80I'm guessing Humpday will make its natural, easygoing leading men -- Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard -- much sought after.
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80One of the best indie films of the year, Humpday is a lighter descendant of "sex lies and videotape," yet burrows just as deep into the male psyche and the human capacity for self-deceit.
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80Funny, uncomfortable and cleverly insightful.
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80Lynn Shelton's marvelous chamber comedy Humpday butts up against the same sort of taboos as "Brüno," and in its fumbling, semi-improvised way, it's equally hilarious and even more subversive.
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Unlike a lot of institutional raunch in today's comedy, Humpday finds laughs out of what is rarely made explicit between buddies.
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75Humpday sells its admittedly far-fetched premise by illustrating how men often can't help but behave like stubborn children in the company of their friends -- even when the stakes are raised to ridiculous levels.
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75While at times the improvisational dialogue sounds like audio filler, the three leads are poignant and perceptive.
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75The movie does open up a lot of heretofore vacuum-sealed cans of worms. Does sex represent a sort of grand completeness that men secretly yearn for in their friendships?
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75Humpday is mostly foreplay. But isn't that usually the most fun anyway? It certainly is in this film.
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70Reuniting an uptight married man with a footloose old pal, Lynn Shelton's third feature offers a (much) more extreme version of Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy," also a sort of buddy movie, also shot in Seattle.
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70A visually mangy but frequently hilarious low-budgeter.
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Delmore, Duplass and Leonard work up a loose-limbed, improvisatory energy, but Humpday radiates with the sheen of a film that has been thought out within an inch of its witty and insightful life.
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67As for that central question: Yep, it's art, all right. One only wishes they'd gotten down to the business of it sooner.
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63Serves up some caustic laughs before fizzling out.
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50Maybe Humpday needed more characters and a less claustrophobic atmosphere. Maybe the film needed to be bolder and break a few boundaries itself. Maybe it could have better explained why these two men still need to be friends. Whatever the case, it certainly needed a better payoff.
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50The scenes between husband and wife are spectacularly awkward and arresting, though the movie grows more dubious the nearer the guys get to their shooting session in a local hotel room.
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25Few kinds of art are more boring than the insistently transgressive, and few movies are more boring than Humpday.
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KevinS9An almost perfect movie. The acting is amazing, and it's a true to life, unHollywood type movie.
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