As Helen, Juergensen brings that vital magnetic Type-A Gen X lesbian energy, the kind of force of will destined to stay with someone regardless of what happens to a relationship.

| Mar 27, 2025

Why is this film important to know about? Because we all may need the heads-up for our more Sapphically challenged friends and family who will (I promise) try to bond with us over this film.

| May 24, 2022

Jewish queer woman classic.

| Sep 10, 2021

Sweet comedy about when a girl meets girl.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's comedy remains the best film spawned by "Sex and the City." This sharp-tongued story about emotional curiosity and the politics of passion draws on the words of a dead Austrian poet to muse about modern romance.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2010

I was very angry with the ending of this film.

| Apr 29, 2009

What neither the trailers nor the newspaper features written about Kissing Jessica Stein will have prepared you for is quite how funny it is.

| Feb 3, 2009

The cast is wonderful and the story is commendably free of the sectarian us-versus-them tone of many romantic gay movies.

| Feb 3, 2009

Director Charles Herman-Wurmfeld's movie knows what it wants, what its limits are, and delivers its delights accordingly.

| Aug 18, 2008

Pure pleasure.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2008

It's the best kind of chick-flick, fun and intelligent without being pandering.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 21, 2007

Westfeldt and Juergensen's wordy script tries for both mainstream and offbeat, but gets lost in between.

| Feb 9, 2006

Three years of writing, rehearsing, and performing Jessica together helped develop the film organically for Westfeldt and Juergensen.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Funny, sweet, and intelligent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2005

Westfeldt and Juergensen are both appealing actresses.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 21, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2003

Esta baboseira com pretenses intelectuais possui um roteiro (escrito pelas duas protagonistas) cheio de absurdos e um vocabulrio rebuscado que denuncia sua prpria arrogncia.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2003

An indie romantic comedy that never makes it past first base.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 10, 2003

This charming, thought-provoking New York fest of life and love has its rewards.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2003

I'd be interested to see these women star in another movie, but I'm not crossing my fingers that they write another one.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 10, 2003