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100Here 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."
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90Emerges 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.
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90Like 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.
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Holofcener is honest enough to present human foibles, not just as weaknesses but as unexpected sources of humor and strength.
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88A film of this sort demands superb, seemingly effortless acting, and Holofcener gets it at every turn.
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88Lord 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.
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80Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival.
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80In 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.
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80Lovely & 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.
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80Warmhearted and slightly edgy seriocomedy, these sisters experience some pretty entertaining ups and downs. Entertaining, that is, for people who appreciate irony.
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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.
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78You 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.
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75Delivers a surprising, moving portrait of contemporary womanhood.
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75By 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.
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75The 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.
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75The result is a gutsy little picture and a nice slice of life.
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75A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.
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75It 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.
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This is a fine, funny, humane film.
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75Watching 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.
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75This trio is like a looser, funnier version of the family of wrecks in Woody Allen's ''Interiors.''
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75About 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.
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70Warm, funny and often brutally honest profile of an aging divorcee and her three very different daughters.
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70In 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.
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70Holofcener's smart, acidic comedy Lovely and Amazing zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy.
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70This feels the way a lot of us are living now -- on desperation's dull yet still cutting edge.
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70Engaging, intermittently insightful but too glib to wring full value out of its subject matter.
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70A modest, uneventful film, buoyed by fine, albeit low-key, performances and the ring of truth.
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67There is a certain poignancy to a film that metaphorically examines the stages of a woman's life through each character.
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50Holofcenere 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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Everyone in this chintz-covered world is a little creepy.
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