93% Frances Ha

All Critics (59) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (4)

Late-blooming 20-somethings have never been so perfectly captured -- and Gerwig has never been more appealing -- than in this funny, tender, life-affirming movie.

A modern fairy tale about a girl whose golden heart refuses to tarnish.

Like Gerwig's performance, it's natural, it's realistic, perfectly believable.

The film may be small, but it's really good.

Occasionally inspired, frequently charming and always watchable.

Has the earnest, wonky charm of a homemade valentine.

But there's just something so relentlessly likable about put-upon, impoverished Frances (Greta Gerwig) that it almost doesn't matter that her New York is just one big Williamsburg.

Improbable yet engaging, this arrested development serio-comedy should be particularly endearing to those who can't quite get their lives together.

Baumbach's made an intermittently attentive comedy with a few intolerable detours, only as insightful as it wants to be.

The conversations sparkle with both intended and unintended wit, and in a certain cockeyed light, Frances' blithe denial of reality is a charming affirmation of life.

"Frances Ha" could have taken a very different, much darker direction, but not with Gerwig in it.

Brims with funny ideas both verbal and visual that are finely tuned by Baumbach and his cast, and sharply edited...

Passive-aggressive and expertly generational, Frances Ha is either hilarious or devastating, and probably both.

This movie has an endless supply of small but brilliant comic observations.

"Frances Ha" is a movie that will either remind you of what it was (or, if you're lucky, is) like to be young, or it'll make you feel really old. Middle-aged, at least.

The film boldly - and ultimately successfully - vastly favors character definition over plot, and favors character detail over laughs - although the second half (much more than the first) is very funny.

Greta Gerwig is delightful as an awkward non-dancer in this off-beat comedy

...like an early Andrew Bujalski movie with more articulate characters or Lena Dunham's 'Girls' without the ick factor.

Frances Ha is not the worst film of the year. That would be Snitch. However, it is the most obnoxious film so far.

This is a truly wonderful movie, recalling Woody Allen at his best.

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