Nights and Weekends Reviews

Feels entirely true and real.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3.5/5

Its surprisingly structured depiction of this relationship and its many private rituals and performances, which the film's unforgiving style continually strips bare

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In brief scenes, lovely or tense, mostly unresolved, Nights and Weekends indicates a slow, almost imperceptible evolution in the relationship.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 8/10

Swanberg and Gerwig also have a gift for constructing the kind of moments rarely seen in contemporary American independent film.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: B+

This movie belongs to its stars, who also wrote and produced. You can't say their acting is good or bad because they are not really acting. They're just being themselves, pubic hair and all.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/4

One imagines the film is making a gentle attempt to be a modern Scenes from a Marriage, and while that's a tall order, Gerwig and Swanberg aren't terribly far from the mark.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/5

Night and Weekends simultaneously plays like a critique of the mumblecore ethos and an especially obnoxious example of its whimsical tics and insouciant solipsism.

Comment | Original Score: 3/5

Directors Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig fill the screen with many magical moments of intimacy in a relationship that is going through a rough patch.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4/5

A frequent-flyer drama examining 21st Century mating habits.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/4

At last, the confessional style actually confesses a legitimate sense of longing and doubt, and the mundane no longer feels so ordinary.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3.5/5

I can't recall a film with as much character insight as this one; not necessarily character development, but insight.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 4.5/5

The movie's attempt to become a Scenes from a Marriage for the SXSW set often comes within millimeters of self-parody.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/6

These kids fear tripods like most twentysomethings fear neckties.

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Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig nail the everyday rhythms of stuttering indecision.

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If Cassavetes's films inspired future filmmakers with their DIY aesthetic, then Swanberg and Gerwig's efforts seem calculated to discourage enthusiastic amateurs from getting anywhere near a camera.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1.5/4

It's at times bold, intimate, unfunny, and discomforting, but it is never anything less than sincere.

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Nights and Weekends marks writer-director Joe Swanberg's fourth consecutive film at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and it's quite possibly his strongest work yet.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3.5/5

there's poetry -- not to mention a fair dose of comedy -- in the mix.

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Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 3/5