Mistress America

Name: Mistress America
Genre: Comedy
Released: August 14, 2015
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: August 14, 2015 | R

Starring: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke

Summary: Tracy (Lola Kirke) is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig) – a resident of Times Square and adventurous gal about town – she is rescued from herTracy (Lola Kirke) is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig) – a resident of Times Square and adventurous gal about town – she is rescued from her disappointment and seduced by Brooke’s alluringly mad schemes.… Expand

Director: Noah Baumbach

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 84 min

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Steven Rea

Aug 27, 2015

Although Mistress America is very much a New York movie, full of references to couture, pop culture, boutique hotels (to Antigone and Faulkner, too), its comic centerpiece is a brazen assault on a country compound. Read full review

Gregory Ellwood

Feb 1, 2015

Baumbach has cast a wonderfully talented group of up-and-coming actors around Gerwig and Kirke, but it's the screenplay and the leads' incredible chemistry that makes it all so entertaining. There are so many one-liners that you miss because the previous line of dialogue is just as smart and laugh-inducing. Read full review

Connie Ogle

Sep 3, 2015

Gerwig, not surprisingly, is a marvel: mercurial, thin-skinned, haughty, desperate, funny, warm, a magnetic presence who mesmerizes the audience in the same way she attracts Tracy. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Aug 12, 2015

This new-new Baumbach isn’t necessarily better than the old-new Baumbach; "Young" felt meatier, with a stronger sense of who its neurotic New Yorkers were. But that film didn’t have Gerwig, bringing warmth, wit, and loopy star power to a character — a human bulldozer of incorrigible extroversion — as fictional as the Big Apple you see only on the big screen. Read full review

Calvin Wilson

Aug 27, 2015

Mistress America doesn’t quite achieve the magic of “Frances Ha.” But it’s a fresh take on the comic possibilities of friendship among the young. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Feb 1, 2015

The film has nothing if not great vitality and an active creative spirit, but it has all been channeled here in a way that comes off as erratic and sometimes ill-judged. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Aug 27, 2015

From narrative to character development to staging, every frame of Mistress America drips with artifice. It's a playground for unpleasant, self-absorbed characters - an excursion into the lifestyles of people most of us would prefer to bypass. If there's an antonym for self-awareness, it applies to nearly everyone populating this misfire. Read full review

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fra92

Aug 20, 2015

it was really perfect! funny, enterntaining... such an awesome movie. Greta Gerwing and the director are at their best. I just couldn't believe that after Frances Ha, I would laugh and enjoy a movie like this.

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DrBlahBlah

May 2, 2017

Mistress America is not only Noah Baumbach's best (and most underrated) film, it is one of the best films in recent years, in large part thanks to its brilliant script.

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StevieGJD

Sep 3, 2015

Either you like Noah Baumbach or you don't,. This is one of his better films. Greta Gerwig is spot on. There is an amazing farcical scene near the end of the movie that has the perfect tone, It has a Woody Allenesque ode to New York thing about it too. I loved it.

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John935

May 29, 2016

Ok, so I give this a 7, meaning not the greatest thing since French toast but I like it, I really like it. I'm twice the age of Greta character and lived in NY at her age and this whole movie brought back that energy of being young-ish in NY. Also I love that this is a chick buddy flick.Ok, so I give this a 7, meaning not the greatest thing since French toast but I like it, I really like it. I'm twice the age of Greta character and lived in NY at her age and this whole movie brought back that energy of being young-ish in NY. Also I love that this is a chick buddy flick. Movies have been aspiring to be that but this is the real deal. Greta is great (unsurprisingly) and co-star too, as young-ish and young, respectively. Everyone talks fast. Woody Allen-esque but much younger. Fast, funny and seems effortlessly ingratiating. Disclosure: I like most of Baumbach's films. They're not perfecto but even the flaws are above average.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Sep 7, 2017

I don't know how to catalog this film, it is a comedy, but also has its part of psychological neurosis, it is true that there are more characters, but everything revolves about the character of Brooke, honestly the film would not be the same without the commitment of its protagonist GrettaI don't know how to catalog this film, it is a comedy, but also has its part of psychological neurosis, it is true that there are more characters, but everything revolves about the character of Brooke, honestly the film would not be the same without the commitment of its protagonist Gretta Gerwig who steals the film and the is the primary reason to recommend it.… Expand

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cinemaquote

Nov 22, 2015

this movie is so unpleasant. its woody allen meets wes anderson without research or point. characters are stagy, artificial, they even talk in rhythm pauses. everything that brought me to other baumbach is missing but the clichés. terrible on gerwig, the only stance might be the young kirkethis movie is so unpleasant. its woody allen meets wes anderson without research or point. characters are stagy, artificial, they even talk in rhythm pauses. everything that brought me to other baumbach is missing but the clichés. terrible on gerwig, the only stance might be the young kirke if she outgrows typecasting. terrible, indeed.… Expand

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jhep

Sep 4, 2015

Notes for Noah.......No. Rethink it......If you are going to do "Harold and Maude" or "Auntie Mame" you have to DO them !.....In life there are 'Solutions' and there are "Solutionnatas Della Luchai" and you must strive to keep that in mind. .....(The world does not need another "Waiting For Godot".)

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