A dozen years later, [Lena Dunham's] clear-eyed portrait of herself and her friends and the women who relate to them is astute as ever, demonstrating a keen self-awareness at its most unflattering.

| Jul 29, 2024

A refreshingly frank and unencumbered narrative, just as funny and charming as it is melancholy and moving.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Through Dunham's spot-on, methodical compositions, each and every interaction between characters, each sly glance and body movement represent the varying characters' personalities and attitudes more than dialogue ever could.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2018

Tiny Furniture is an observant portrait of those frustrating, entitled, complicated, unflattering moments when you suspect you could be everything but feel like nothing.

| Aug 29, 2017

Taken at face value, Tiny Furniture is an amiable comedy-drama with an unlikely heroine and an assortment of quirky supporting characters. The picture is more intriguing, though, when you consider its unusual casting.

| Feb 28, 2016

Dunham offers glancing and at times devastatingly funny hints at the world beyond our protagonist's blinkered narcissism.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

As Aura is unable to see past the immediate moment, the plot is structured in a way that provides no foreseeable linear direction to an inevitable destination.

| Original Score: B | Jun 2, 2014

an interpersonal chamber-piece that succeeds as well as it does thanks to the unabashed intimacy it has with its own diminutive subject matter. Call it a mumblecore mumblepiece.

| Nov 13, 2013

Endearingly frank.

| Apr 29, 2012

It is Dunham's fearlessness in showing Aura warts and all that becomes endearing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 3, 2012

Speaks to anyone 'waiting' for their opportunity in life, sardonically pointing out the obstacles in the way in a glib but nave manner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2012

Dunham's satirical intentions can't quite compensate for the pain of spending almost 100 heartless minutes in the company of irredeemably unlikeable characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2012

It's best enjoyed, like Aura's life, as a work in progress, promisingly tangy and archly amusing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2012

It's clever, funny and never smug as Dunham pokes fun at herself and the pseuds around her.

| Mar 30, 2012

Smartly observed and bitterly funny, the deadpan Tiny Furniture feels true to life for an entire generation struggling to find a job and make their mark on the world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2012

Lena Dunham demonstrates a keen eye for detail, a sharp ear for dialogue and a nice line in deadpan playing in this, her debut feature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2012

Dunham's critics are circling but this is well-written and funny.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2012

Dunham's on-screen mixture - essentially all the S's (sadness, structurelessness, serendipity) - is stirred so skilfully it makes recent indie cinema of extemporisation, from mumblecore to Miranda Otto, seem like am-dram.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2012

A painfully authentic anti-coming-of-ager.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2012