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Tiny Furniture (2010)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 74
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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 24
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A recent college graduate keeps stumbling as she steps out into the real world in this independent comedy drama. Aura (Lena Dunham) has just graduated from a university in the Midwest, receiving a degree in film theory that even she seems to realize is essentially worthless. With no real prospects she returns home to her mother, Siri (Laurie Simmons), a successful photographer living in New York City. Aura's 17-year-old sister, Nadine (Grace Dunham), is about to graduate from high school and is

Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Lena Dunham

Written By: Lena Dunham

In Theaters: Nov 12, 2010 Limited

On DVD: Feb 14, 2012

Box Office:$0.4M

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Critic Reviews for Tiny Furniture

All Critics (75) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (21) | DVD (3)

Just when you think "Tiny Furniture" is of the nothing-happens school of indie-filmdom, something more dramatic happens.

January 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Claude Peck

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Dunham's version of "Reality Bites," that collision between college expectations and harsh reality, runs out of gas by about the third time she confesses to her increasingly irate mom, "I'm figuring it out."

January 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

Dunham has a sharp eye for visual composition and a sharp ear, too.

January 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

It's one of the loveliest lowest-budget features to come down the pike.

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Denver Post

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Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Artful, smart, funny, sad and in its own small way dazzling.

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Detroit News

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Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

There's a fierce, self-lacerating wit on display in Lena Dunham's tiny indie Tiny Furniture: as big and bold as the production is modest and (literally) homemade.

December 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Sex and the City for the Millennial Generation!

February 20, 2012 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

succeeds admirably in its relatively scaled ambition to evoke the discomfort of a particular time in one's life while also jabbing playfully at the pretensions of the insular Soho art scene

February 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Slow drama about post-college life with sex, drinking, etc.

February 15, 2012 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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S. Jhoanna Robledo

Common Sense Media

Fans of this unusually ambitious, moving, mixed-up post-college malaise film will be very pleased with this superb transfer.

February 14, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine

A slight comedy that perfectly captures a transitional moment

September 30, 2011 Full Review Source: Movie Habit

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Robert Denerstein

Movie Habit

Listening to these characters talk - and that's literally all they ever do - is one of the most agonising experiences I've had all year.

August 30, 2011 Full Review Source: Cut Print Review

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Tom Clift

Cut Print Review

As far as mumblecore films go, this is perhaps the most accessible (better production values, less mumbly), but the ideals of that movement are evident here (brutal honesty, caustic lazy wit).

August 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Quickflix

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Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Tiny Furniture is more drifty than plotted, a character study of a young person without great options standing at a crossroads. None of the paths look promising.

June 3, 2011 Full Review Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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Burl Burlingame

Honolulu Star-Advertiser Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Not much happens in "Tiny Furniture," but viewers can take considerable pleasure in Dunham's clever, funny script, which is honest and unsparing in detailing the early-adulthood paralysis that grips so many twentysomethings.

March 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

There is much to adore here, especially Dunham's direction...

March 17, 2011 Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly

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Justin Strout

Orlando Weekly

Tiny Furniture is certainly more lively than Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, but they share a common flaw in that they're both examples of intense navel-gazing, with fuzzy notions of identity and assertion only serving as so much belly-button lint.

March 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Creative Loafing

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Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

...almost an anti-drama in that it seems to purposefully avoid all occasions to gain purchase in our hearts. Probably because it doesn't want to cheapen itself. In that way it's kind of a noble thing. Misguided maybe, but noble

March 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

A modestly crafted but extremely funny and beautifully observed young person's slice of Tribeca creative-class loft life...

February 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Dunham is a comedian of the Elaine May school; she's not as freakishly talented as that comparison might suggest, but there are moments in this film when Dunham very much resembles May's own daughter, the actress Jeannie Berlin.

February 23, 2011 Full Review Source: House Next Door

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Dan Callahan

House Next Door

A sad little self-indulgence.

February 8, 2011 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion

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Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

I hardly know where to start with how exciting Dunham's accomplishment is here.

January 28, 2011 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)

St. Paul Pioneer Press

'Tiny Furniture' brings some laughs. Is it a memorable film that will be praised as one of the best indie films of 2010? No. But, it is entertaining for right now.

January 3, 2011 Full Review Source: BET.com

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Clay Cane

BET.com

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The reputation of this movie is more interesting than the movie itself. Lena Dunham surely deserves accolades for writing, directing, and starring in her first feature film. She cobbled together her real-life mother and sister to star as Aura's mother and sister - both of whom performed quite well. The lighting,

January 7, 2012

Alice Shen

Super Reviewer

Lena Dunham's autobiographical expos� successfully encapsulates the attitude of a generation of cynical literates who perpetually view their glass as half empty. To Dunham's credit, I found myself caring about her characters even though they're shallow and naive and ripe with a false sense of entitlement. Anyone who

September 2, 2010

Randy Tippy

Super Reviewer

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