This is a fine, funny, humane film.
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07/26/02
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Lovely & Amazing (2002)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:26
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: The bitingly truthful Lovely & Amazing is a smart and perceptive female character study.
Theatrical Release:Jun 28, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $4,186,931
Synopsis: Academy-Award nominated actresses Catherine Keener ("Being John Malkovich") and Brenda Blethyn ("Secrets & Lies") star in Nicole Holofcener's follow-up feature to her critically acclaimed debut... [More]
Starring: Catherine Keener, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Mortimer
Director: Nicole Holofcener
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Reviews for Lovely & Amazing
Top CriticThis is soap opera with a brain, as she reveals four people ... at their most unguarded and, therefore, honest and bitterly funny.
07/19/02
Top CriticThe ensemble Holofcener has assembled comprises some of the best actresses working today, and they inhabit their roles with the astringency and softness these characters demand.
07/19/02
Top CriticThe impressive thing about Holofcener's non-judgemental generosity with character, which at times recalls an American Mike Leigh, is that she makes no concessions to easy endearment.
07/19/02
Top CriticA gutsy little picture and a nice slice of life.
07/19/02
Top CriticPerformances are potent, and the women's stories are ably intercut and involving.
07/19/02
Top CriticIt looks closely, insightfully at fragile, complex relationships.
07/19/02
Top CriticFor all its dirty talk and up-frontness, this is a family film -- it's about one family and the extended family of females. Any woman who sees it will recognize that, and any man who sees it will be better for it.
07/19/02
Top CriticIt's amazingly perceptive in its subtle, supportive but unsentimental look at the Marks family.
07/19/02
Top CriticA chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.
07/19/02
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07/19/02
Top CriticHere is a movie that knows its women, listens to them, doesn't give them a pass, allows them to be real.
07/19/02
Top CriticIn their love for each other and their ability to move on, the women are, in a way, lovely and amazing.
07/18/02
Top CriticSad and wry, deftly acted, and ultimately moving.
07/18/02
Top CriticSome scenes are served up like haiku. Others seem like abstracts of notes [Holofcener] scribbled to herself after sessions at the 'I'm OK, You're OK' corral.
07/18/02
Top CriticWe come to like these people, warts and all.
07/17/02
Top CriticDelivers a surprising, moving portrait of contemporary womanhood.
07/12/02
Top CriticBoth subtler and spikier in its perception of the ways that modern women can sabotage the freedoms they crave [than Walking and Talking].
07/02/02
Top CriticI don't think this movie loves women at all.
07/01/02
Top CriticFeels untidily honest.
06/28/02
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