Sad and wry, deftly acted, and ultimately moving.
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07/18/02
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Lovely & Amazing (2002)
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Reviews Counted:113
Fresh:96
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.3/10
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
Any enjoyment will be hinge from a personal threshold of watching sad but endearing characters do extremely unconventional things.
07/18/02
Holofcener rejects patent solutions to dramatize life's messiness from inside out, in all its strange quirks.
07/18/02
Because the characters are more like collections of quirks than integrated personalities, you never quite understand why anyone does anything.
07/18/02
Some 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 CriticStuffed with enough moments of bitter humor and agonizing truthfulness to be worthy, despite its too-slender framework.
07/18/02
We come to like these people, warts and all.
07/17/02
Top Critic"Lovely's" strength lies in its ability to stress the unremarkable and make it interesting.
07/15/02
Damaged Goods---“Lovely & Amazing” is Miss-leading
07/15/02
A low-key treasure that yields its delights in unexpected ways.
07/15/02
Like a skillful fisher, the director uses the last act to reel in the audience since its poignancy hooks us completely.
07/14/02
I couldn't shake the feeling that half this movie was stolen from outtakes of A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy and Another Woman.
07/12/02
Family portrait of need, neurosis and nervy negativity is a rare treat that shows the promise of digital filmmaking.
07/12/02
Delivers a surprising, moving portrait of contemporary womanhood.
07/12/02
Top CriticThe movie comes across as some kind of cinematic therapy for the writer-director -- and she has a lot of emotional baggage to unpack.
07/11/02
Holofcener has a terrific ability to conjure breathing characters out of the quirks and ticks of human foibles
07/08/02
Both 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 CriticThe feminine tone of “Lovely & Amazing” is not going to draw droves of guys, except to make points on a date.
07/02/02
I don't think this movie loves women at all.
07/01/02
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