Greta Gerwig is delightful as Frances. If you know her more as a director, this will probably be a welcome surprise

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 29, 2024

Noah Baumbach solidly directs Frances Ha while Greta Gerwig delivers a strong performance in her portrayal of struggling dancer.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2023

A comedy that Baumbach adorns with a notable layer of black and white, but whose dramatic core, in short, becomes routine and terribly superfluous when Gerwig walks aimlessly through the streets of New York to find maturity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 13, 2023

[A] sweetly frivolous tale of stony-broke hipsters navigating creative dreams and disappointments in New York City.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2023

Frances Ha is yet another example of Baumbach's talent to explore legitimate emotion regarding the modern human experience; but sadly due to an overall out-of-place character, the film fails to be one of Baumbach's best.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 28, 2022

“Frances Ha” works because of its intriguing central character, a great performance from Greta Gerwig, and a really interesting technical approach from Noah Baumbach.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Much of Baumbach's sense of joy throughout Frances Ha resides in Gerwig's infectious charisma, and her character's spiritual awakening of sorts, her self-discovery.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Damn it all this movie bowled me over, and the second it was done I wanted to stand up from my seat, climb up into the projection booth, and bribe them to play it again and again and again. That feeling will stand. Greta Gerwig for everything.

| Jan 14, 2022

This is Gerwig's show, and she pulls it off beautifully.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 18, 2021

Frances Ha has become a cult classic thanks to its relatable portrait of the bewildering life stage that is young adulthood.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 25, 2021

Being a big fan of Noah Baumbach's work in general, it's exciting to see him return to form.

| Mar 18, 2021

The film, which, though still enjoyable, because Baumbach and Gerwig have talent, is more insubstantial than it needs to be.

| Feb 27, 2021

A rare and wonderful film that give thanks for friends and revels in life's low times.

| Jan 15, 2021

Funny, sad and bittersweet - one of Noah Baumbach's finest.

| Jan 5, 2021

The [French] New Wave itself was a movement which had an of-by-for the youth vibe -- and just like Chabrol or Godard, Gerwig cuts her teeth with a film filled with youthful preoccupations.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 24, 2020

Baumbach's most hopeful, least combative work to date, it gets by on the sheer charm of Greta Gerwig.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 9, 2020

Greta Gerwig's capricious title character is actually charming in her utter bewilderment.

| Original Score: 3.8/5 | Nov 19, 2019

This delightful indie comedy proves whoever said life's what you make it has got it all wrong. Life's what makes you.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 30, 2019

It's hard to really dislike Frances Ha as Gerwig's performance, the breezy pace, and quick-witted script work like gangbusters for the most part.

| Original Score: 7.3/10 | Jun 29, 2019

If you don't cringe several times during the dinner party scene, you are not human.

| Mar 2, 2019