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

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

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

A deft self-portrait of someone who hasn't reached the point where they can take themselves seriously.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2012

Much-maligned it may be, but the so-called mumblecore movement continues to turn out gems.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2012

Just when you think "Tiny Furniture" is of the nothing-happens school of indie-filmdom, something more dramatic happens.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 27, 2011

Dunham has a sharp eye for visual composition and a sharp ear, too.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 3, 2011

There's not much to it, but you do sense, after watching it, that this filmmaker might someday make something very good, once she starts looking beyond her own immediate vicinity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 24, 2010

It's one of the loveliest lowest-budget features to come down the pike.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 17, 2010

Artful, smart, funny, sad and in its own small way dazzling.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 17, 2010

There's a fierce, self-lacerating wit on display in Lena Dunham's tiny indie Tiny Furniture: as big and bold as the production is modest and (literally) homemade.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 17, 2010

Dunham definitely has a knack for shaping a comic scene, but Aura is so culturally and financially privileged that her woes begin to seem as trivial as the miniatures her mother uses in her artwork.

| Dec 10, 2010

In skewering the neuroses of New York bohemians, Durham has left us too little to care about.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 10, 2010

What Dunham lacks in polish, she makes up for in her ability to observe her generation, with the hardest truths coming at her own expense.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2010

Many of us have been here - that first flush of post-college terror, remember? - and Dunham makes it funny and involving before entropy kicks in at the two-thirds mark.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 9, 2010

It's a find -- funny and rueful and verbally dexterous, leavening a quippy screenplay with just enough honesty to make it stick.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 9, 2010