Gerwig and Baumbach fashion an interesting bunch of edgy characters that are in a state of constant formation, with a defined core to them.

| Aug 16, 2023

Mistress America is quirky and meandering, but never in a bad way. It feels like those days that stretched on forever when you were young.

| Jul 25, 2023

…a snapshot of 2015 that pulls no punches in terms of how millennials can present their lives as constant success despite encroaching failure…

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2023

This particular dive into the fashionable problems of big city millennials may not measure up with Baumbach’s best. Yet it still manages to capture what I enjoy about his films, and the uniqueness of his formula is always satisfying.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

What seems farcical and fun-loving at times breaks down into a tender story, as this director’s films often do.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 29, 2022

Baumbach returns to that biting criticism of, "Just like the rest of your generation; everything a pastiche."

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2021

It's a story that exists in it's own carefully constructed world but peel back the layers and it has much to say about female mentoring relationships and the responsibilities inherent in those relationships.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

Sometimes, Mistress America tells us, it's easier to understand others than yourself. If we're paying attention, though, maybe we can learn something from them.

| Jan 14, 2021

An insincere, performative impression of so-called real life.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2020

Characters with more depth would have allowed Mistress [America] to be simultaneously comic and dark; instead, it lends itself to noncomplex interpretation.

| Feb 3, 2020

Mistress America powers through the occasional rough spots on Gerwig's determination, unlike her character, not to take it all too seriously.

| Jan 10, 2020

I found Mistress America unique, creative, and simply on point.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 16, 2019

Mistress America is far less cynical than While We're Young, yet it's hilarity, piquant catty rivalry, and Brooke's straight-talking outer shell poignantly give way to some extremely sad observations.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 4, 2019

Filled with heart-warming moments, combined with a witty script, and a great cast, the film is one of Baumbach's more light-hearted outings and he and Gerwig make it work.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 2, 2019

[Greta] Gerwig has, with [Noah] Baumbach, written a role that she was born to play: her slightly spacy delivery serves as a disguise for Brooke's razor-sharp observations.

| Mar 8, 2019

This is one of the funniest films Baumbach's ever made, and the hope is that Gerwig adopts some of Brooke's can-do spirit and churns out more movies like this for us to feast upon.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 7, 2019

Near the end, the story becomes central in a moral quandary that Baumbach and Gerwig are smart enough not to resolve with a tidy answer. Is it stealing? Does it matter?

| Aug 28, 2018

By a weird fidelity to a specific vernacular, Mistress America is an invented landscape not unlike Star Wars. The soundtrack has an '80s feel, the setting is contemporary and Greta Gerwig channels Katherine Hepburn.

| Aug 23, 2018

Mistress America is, despite it's wobbles and preference for humour over depth, a delightful diversion from Baumbach's typically weighty output and a star-show for the pair of performers at its centre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2018

I loved Kirke and Gerwig's megadramatic line readings. Everything they do is underlined.

| Aug 8, 2018