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  • Utopia
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Summary Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) is a sensitive and naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her disillusioned mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and influencer sister (Taylour Paige). Working as a caregiver and just longing to be seen, she begins an exploratory affair with her older, married employer (Jon Bernthal), and is thrust...

Directed By: Lena Dunham

Written By: Lena Dunham

  • 2022
  • R
  • Utopia
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2022
  • R
  • Utopia
  • 1 h 32 m

Sharp Stick

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
53
User Score Overwhelming Dislike Based on 4 User Ratings
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Summary Sarah Jo (Kristine Froseth) is a sensitive and naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her disillusioned mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and influencer sister (Taylour Paige). Working as a caregiver and just longing to be seen, she begins an exploratory affair with her older, married employer (Jon Bernthal), and is thrust...

Directed By: Lena Dunham

Written By: Lena Dunham

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
53
34% Positive
10 Reviews
55% Mixed
16 Reviews
10% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
53
34% Positive
10 Reviews
55% Mixed
16 Reviews
10% Negative
3 Reviews

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100
Jan 23, 2022
Dunham has not lost her habit of exploring taboo and shocking scenarios. But just like this new film’s fluid, low key visual style and bright, poppy production design, the coming-of-age story it presents feels so organically conceived that what would surely be completely unacceptable in another context appears to obey the film’s own perverse set of rules with warmth and a refreshing lack of judgment.
By Elena Lazic FULL REVIEW
70
Aug 3, 2022
In Sharp Stick, Dunham forces a flood of experience and pain into a compact vessel.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 3, 2022
Uneven, ambiguous and unnerving, “Sharp Stick” undoubtedly has a point to make. What that is, precisely, might be subject to debate.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
55
Jan 23, 2022
It feels like Dunham hasn’t progressed much after all this time.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 23, 2022
Sharp Stick, in its quick verbal exchanges, its naked sexuality, its general air of busting taboos as if they were oversize balloons, is recognizably a Lena Dunham movie. But it’s the first one of her projects in which the parts don’t quite add up, because it seems as if what we’re watching hasn’t been so much created as contrived.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 29, 2022
Sharp Stick is charming thanks to great performances, but the lopsided script doesn’t reach its full potential.
By Patrice Witherspoon FULL REVIEW
16
Jul 25, 2022
Watching Sharp Stick is like encountering that pain box that Paul Atreides faces in Dune, only instead of a hand it’s your entire soul. Every moment is awkward, phony, excruciating, and just so unbelievably bad.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company FilmNation Entertainment, Good Thing Going
Release Date Jul 29, 2022
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
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Awards

Americana Film Fest
• 1 Nomination

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