Fits the mold of a teen angst film, except the main character Megan is a clever twenty-something who never completely grew out of her angst.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2021

A nicely polished example of familiarity, genuine with its intentions and generally pleasing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2019

Whilst we don't go to the movies to make friends, it's hard to relate with these character's mundane existential predicaments from such a distant vantage.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2019

As I sat through [Lynn] Shelton's latest movie, Laggies, I couldn't help feeling deflated.

| Mar 12, 2019

Shelton has a knack for filming the literal and figurative spaces between people, and Andrea Seigel's contrived (albeit likeable) script is at home in Shelton's navel-gazing universe.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 11, 2018

LAGGIES operates in simple binaries that state being an adult is bad and being lost in a sea of teen angst is good.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 8, 2018

The size of this story fit perfectly into the space of the film. Keira Knightley created a sympathetic character in circumstances that were kind of suspect.

| Aug 22, 2018

It winds up indulging the very delusions that a good (not to mention realistic) script would puncture.

| Mar 17, 2018

It's possible that Shelton put a little too much faith in Knightley's charm, and you can't really blame her.

| Nov 29, 2017

Even if the film doesn't leave much to ponder past the closing credits, it's enjoyable while it's unfolding, doing justice to the strengths of Shelton's ever-expanding filmography.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 16, 2016

Laggies soon goes off the rails, its plot becoming more contrived and characters increasingly erratic.

| Original Score: C | Jun 21, 2016

Plot implausibilities and Knightley's comedic deficiencies, however, ensure that proceedings never move much beyond the passable.

| Mar 11, 2016

Every filmmaker is allowed a few career missteps. Lynn Shelton seems to have spent all hers on just one movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 19, 2015

The limbo between adolescence and adulthood provokes a shrug

| Feb 13, 2015

While a bit hard to buy as an unmotivated screw-up, Knightley gives Megan an endearing bouncy quality, which jibes with the movie's pleasant tone and helps viewers believe Craig's feelings for Megan.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2015

A shrewd little dramedy directed by a woman, written by a woman and told from a woman's perspective, which on those merits alone constitutes a rare and special film worth seeing.

| Original Score: B | Jan 9, 2015

Shallow, smug and bizarrely myopic ...

| Original Score: 79/100 | Dec 31, 2014

Capturing that particular age group, of those in their late 20s and early 30s, entering into adulthood with a certain reluctance and trepidation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2014

Shelton's comedy isn't just smart, but cheerfully wise; not just funny, but cleverly and endlessly so.

| Nov 17, 2014

This set-up is vaguely creepy and certainly problematic, but 'Laggies' works hard to be as reassuring and ultimately conventional as its snooze-inducing piano score.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 13, 2014