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

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

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

| Jan 15, 2021

Yes, it is rather kooky, and highly self-conscious... but it's also sweet, endearing, touching, and features proper women you can actually believe in, and who aren't just drippily searching for love, which is something of a novelty.

| Sep 5, 2018

One of the happiest sights you'll see all summer is a montage of Gerwig running and twirling across Chinatown with David Bowie's "Modern Love" on the soundtrack.

| Jan 6, 2014

The thoughtfulness and commitment of Gerwig's performance in its shifts from chaotic exuberance to rigorous rehearsal suggest that she is the more interesting artist to watch.

| Dec 11, 2013

Gerwig superbly incarnates the contradictions of this insecure woman.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2013

As Frances literally dances her way through the streets of New York, you can't help smiling and knowing she will be OK. She will figure out how to be the adult she was meant to be.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 11, 2013

I found Frances Ha frequently irritating and even cringe-inducing in the moment, yet feel tenderer towards it in retrospect. It's about a specific time in life, when the sudden stampede to self-definition can make people seem cruel, crazy or resentful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2013

Frances Ha -- both the movie and its heroine -- is graceful, awkward, luminous and hilarious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2013

Greta Gerwig is perhaps the most interesting of the younger American actresses working in films today, and she's wonderful as Frances in this black and white charmer from director Noah Baumbach.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2013

The infectiously delightful exuberance of Frances that nearly vibrates off the screen is clearly tailor-made for the actress.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 11, 2013

Few films top Woody Allen's Manhattan for capturing New York City's blend of rapture and apprehension. Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha comes close.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 11, 2013

Writing with Gerwig, Baumbach has created a fey, sneakily charming generational touchstone on a par with Annie Hall and his own Gen Y col-grad comedy Kicking and Screaming.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 11, 2013

Bolstered by a shrewd script and meticulous director, Gerwig shines. By turn screwball heroine and ungainly in character, she emerges as her generation's finest comic actress.

| Nov 2, 2013

The hilarious, touching Frances Ha is lubricated by the same juice that allowed Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à Part to slip so smoothly through the streets of Paris.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2013

Frances Ha might well strike some viewers as ridiculously twee and tiresomely indulgent to its immature heroine. Not me, though. I'm happy to be enchanted.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2013

I'm not sure what Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha is about, which is one reason I like it so much.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2013

Frances is only adequate as a dancer but her enthusiasm bridges the gap between aspiration and ability. She deserves an A for effort. The film gets one for attainment.

| Jul 25, 2013

It's a likable movie, with some nice moments of both comedy and pathos, and beautifully shot, but for me the reverence for its heroine was not completely earned, and the arrowhead was missing: the decisive jab of satire, of insight, of love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2013

Frances Ha both acknowledges and earns its place in the tradition of the New York bourgeois comedy, encoding the angst of social mores in witty dialogue. Make no mistake: the cinematic slacker has come of age.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2013