Who'd have thought spending 90 minutes with a bunch of neurotic women could be such fun? An intelligent, unassuming drama that's never less than enjoyable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Observed without corny resolutions and paced to allow for reflection, the film is understated but spot on.

| Feb 9, 2006

Michelle isn't an easy woman to relate to let alone like, yet as the film progresses I was drawn more and more towards her inner warmth and charm discovering pieces of myself in her own persona.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

Well to the bitter end of the bittersweet spectrum, it labours under a strangely oppressive cloudy sky of emotional discontent.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2002

Holofcener has crafted a comedy which acknowledges not just our neuroses about our bodies, but also the messy, ambivalent complexities of adult family relationships.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2002

This is a fine, funny, humane film.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 26, 2002

A sharp, articulate study of why we say some of the things that we do and how our words and actions can be (mis)perceived by others.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2002

This is soap opera with a brain, as she reveals four people ... at their most unguarded and, therefore, honest and bitterly funny.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2002

The ensemble Holofcener has assembled comprises some of the best actresses working today, and they inhabit their roles with the astringency and softness these characters demand.

| Jul 19, 2002

The impressive thing about Holofcener's non-judgemental generosity with character, which at times recalls an American Mike Leigh, is that she makes no concessions to easy endearment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2002

It's a smart-talking, slice-of-life comedy/drama that could just as easily be titled Our Bodies/Ourselves.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 19, 2002

A gutsy little picture and a nice slice of life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2002

Lovely and Amazing is Holofcener's deep, uncompromising curtsy to women she knows, and very likely is. When all is said and done, she loves them to pieces -- and so, I trust, will you.

| Jul 19, 2002

Performances are potent, and the women's stories are ably intercut and involving.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 19, 2002

It looks closely, insightfully at fragile, complex relationships.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2002

For all its dirty talk and up-frontness, this is a family film -- it's about one family and the extended family of females. Any woman who sees it will recognize that, and any man who sees it will be better for it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2002

It's amazingly perceptive in its subtle, supportive but unsentimental look at the Marks family.

| Jul 19, 2002

A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 19, 2002

Here is a movie that knows its women, listens to them, doesn't give them a pass, allows them to be real.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 19, 2002

In their love for each other and their ability to move on, the women are, in a way, lovely and amazing.

| Original Score: C | Jul 18, 2002