The characters are complex and quirky, but entirely believable as the remarkable ensemble cast brings them to life.
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06/30/02
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Lovely & Amazing
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06/29/02
Top CriticOne of the funniest and most endearing films of the year . . . it is difficult in an appearance-obsessed culture to go against the grain and find beauty within.
06/28/02
Feels untidily honest.
06/28/02
While it may not add up to the sum of its parts, Holofcener's film offers just enough insight to keep it from being simpleminded, and the ensemble cast is engaging enough to keep you from shifting in your chair too often.
06/28/02
An insightful, heart-rending/wrenching/ warming take on the besieged state of modern womanhood.
06/28/02
Movies like Lovely & Amazing are valuable because they're rare, allowing interesting scenarios for actresses that are good looking but not glamorous, sensitive but not demure.
06/28/02
Even if the ending kind of drops off, this juggle of weird, sappy and sad will have even your own relatives looking pretty good by the time you walk out of the theater.
06/28/02
Top CriticA wry comedy.
06/28/02
Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival.
06/28/02
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06/28/02
Lots of nice, funny, poignant moments, but it just doesn't add up to a lovely or amazing movie.
06/28/02
Warm, funny and often brutally honest profile of an aging divorcee and her three very different daughters.
06/27/02
Zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy that illustrates exactly the way some people allow their personal insecurities and tics to poison their intimate relationships.
06/27/02
Top CriticAs smart and observant as it is, Lovely and Amazing doesn't really go anywhere.
06/27/02
Top CriticWith a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film, Lovely & Amazing involves us because it is so incisive, so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives.
06/27/02
Top CriticNicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing, from her own screenplay, jumps to the head of the class of women’s films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style.
06/27/02
'Lovely and Amazing,' unhappily, is neither...excessively strained and contrived.
06/27/02
Is there a group of more self-absorbed women than the mother and daughters featured in this film? I don't think so. Nothing wrong with performances here, but the whiney characters bugged me.
06/27/02
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