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63Dunham has been justly praised for her determination in getting Tiny Furniture made, but the movie itself has been overpraised as a result.
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60A small film about enormous fears.
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50A tolerably warm bath of postcollegiate self-pity, salted with irony and self-mockery.
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75It's hard enough for a director to work with actors, but if you're working with your own family in your own house and depicting passive aggression, selfishness and discontent and you produce a film this good, you can direct just about anybody in just about anything.
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88The movie is full, assured and extremely wry.
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91Lena Dunham, the writer-director-star of the microbudget Tiny Furniture, has a distinctive comedic take on the world – a kind of haggard spiritedness.
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80Much-maligned it may be, but the so-called mumblecore movement continues to turn out gems. Lena Dunham's lo-fi, witty treatment of a semi-autobiographical tale adds another dozy to the canon.
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100Tiny Furniture is proof, against steep odds, that there are no small stories, only small storytellers.
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70What the film does well is capture the confusion of the identity abyss of twentysomethings of a certain social class.
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85The complementary tone of droll but freighted psychodrama she strikes in Tiny Furniture feels like a significant but precarious achievement. I feel a pinch of worry for her - as I did for Aura - looking into a future of Rudins and Apatows.
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0Lena Dunham makes a 98-minute home video seem like 98 days of hard labor.
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100Whether Tiny Furniture is a mumblecore movie is an open question. It has many of the tell-tale signs of that ill-defined genre; although improvised dialogue, a mumblecore staple, is minimal.
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75The end result is that Tiny Furniture plays like situation comedy, but with an overlay of performance art.
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63Lena Dunham's amusing meander through "post graduate delirium," a relationship comedy about nothing so much as the permanent relationships of family and New Yorker's relationship with space - and the lack of it.
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88A darkly comic, piercing, and occasionally painful study of a young woman's quest for identity.
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75It's the work of a filmmaker with a stunning future.
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80This is a quirky little comedy, not a film that will change your view of reality or anything, but it's funny, wrenching and sharply observed, with a dispassion that suggests a real artist is at work.
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75What Dunham lacks in polish, she makes up for in her ability to observe her generation, with the hardest truths coming at her own expense.
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70Tiny Furniture feels surprisingly assured, even elegant. There are those who will accuse Tiny Furniture of wildly inconsistent tonal shifts, and it is guilty of some, but I appreciated the way this movie kept upending my expectations.
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63In skewering the neuroses of New York bohemians, Durham has left us too little to care about.
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67Tiny Furniture offers a 21st-century, East Coast spin on "The Graduate," but with comedy-writer-ish dialogue and a mannered style that never fully gels.
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80Dunham, who pads through much of this extremely well-written, often funny and very touching film in the semi-nude, doesn't give a damn about any of it.
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50How she (Dunham) made her movie is more impressive or at least unique than the actual story she chooses to tell.
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70Tiny Furniture is at times more pleasurable to think about than it is to watch, more of a conceptual coup than an enjoyable experience.
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60The funny thing? It all works reasonably well, especially if you have a yen for the urbane register of city kids and their amazingly cool parents.
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80Tiny Furniture announces Dunham as a talent to watch.
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70What it doesn't have, to its credit, is a neat conclusion. In the end, the film appears to suggest that Aura likely will feel free to keep searching for herself, repeating mistakes and making new ones, because she has all the time in the world.
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70A comedy of youthful confusion that gets its kick not only for evoking a world of unromantic hookups, casual BJs, and iPhone porn, but for satirizing New York's bourgeois bohemia.
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80Pathos isn't Ms. Dunham's bag. What makes her film fascinating is the delicate mood it sustains.
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75A funny, affecting movie about growing up in the shadow of a formidable mom.