Smart, funny, and above all entertaining, You Hurt My Feelings finds writer-director Nicole Holofcener as sharply perceptive as ever.
The film is mature, relatable and risks being terminally uncool – full of evident chagrin from Holofcener that she can’t be a new voice these days, but also comfortably embracing the old one.
Read full articleThe film is ultimately saved by a self-awareness of its own absurdly privileged viewpoint.
Read full articleA delightful, hilarious and deeply human film about the innate contradictions we refuse to accept.
Read full articleThe film becomes a lid lifter on long-term relationships, and analyses, in forensic details, the lies that we tell, often big ones, to keep a relationship motoring.
Read full articleThe film is super-spare in execution, yet everything is meticulously tuned. The acting is superb too...
Read full articleIts watchable, it’s charming, it just doesn’t have that much to say
Read full articleA movie with deeply humanist roots that relies on the remarkable performance of Louis-Dreyfus, one of those artists who acts without seeming like she's performing. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full articleJulia Louis-Dreyfus plays Beth’s sense of betrayal beautifully – it’s hilarious, but rooted in real pain. It again makes you wonder why she hasn’t had more opportunities to carry a film.
Read full articleWith “You Hurt My Feelings,” writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s ongoing collaboration with Julia Louis-Dreyfus is another insightful dramedy that will hit home with middle-agers.
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