Ultimately, You Hurt My Feelings asks the right questions—the ripe paranoid thoughts people might have about their own artistic work and the fine line between honesty and support—but falters in its somewhat middling execution.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2024

A deceptively complex examination of the relationship between feelings and words, and how inadequately we often navigate the two.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 17, 2024

Its watchable, it’s charming, it just doesn’t have that much to say

| Original Score: B | Apr 24, 2024

A movie with deeply humanist roots that relies on the remarkable performance of Louis-Dreyfus, one of those artists who acts without seeming like she's performing. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2024

Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Beth’s sense of betrayal beautifully – it’s hilarious, but rooted in real pain. It again makes you wonder why she hasn’t had more opportunities to carry a film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2024

With “You Hurt My Feelings,” writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s ongoing collaboration with Julia Louis-Dreyfus is another insightful dramedy that will hit home with middle-agers.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 15, 2023

There are many things that make every Nicole Holofcener film a welcome, reliable refreshment but maybe the most important is that she’s one of the very few directors currently working who are expressly an unapologetically interested in making comedies.

| Dec 14, 2023

[You Hurt My Feelings] is often laugh-out-loud funny (nobody surpasses Louis-Dreyfus in the sarcastic putdown department) but ultimately makes a telling point: it’s virtually impossible to survive in this modern world without lying.

| Original Score: B | Dec 7, 2023

A movie about the virtues of gentle deceit which feels a tad too deceitful in its gentleness. It’s worth seeing for the excellent cast and witty script, but it would have benefited from a bit less saccharine assurance, and a bit more honest bile.

| Nov 26, 2023

The acting is solid in this movie, and the dialog is witty. The situations are light, smart and funny. The depictions of human behavior in this film are believable, even if they are sometimes exaggerated for comic effect.

| Original Score: B | Oct 24, 2023

Nicole Holofcener’s YOU HURT MY FEELINGS, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is a low-key take on the minor struggles of creative New Yorkers, and the impact of white lies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2023

... An engaging drama about the lies we tell to those we love, to avoid hurting them or to boost their confidence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2023

Nicely acted, it’s a film for grown-ups, the kind that makes you think about everything you’ve ever said to protect and, indeed, support your loved ones. Try not to cringe.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2023

'You Hurt My Feelings' is an easygoing comedy-drama that deals with honesty and bullsh*t in a lived-in way. There's a real sense of intelligence to how the story plays out, but it's not high-brow or inaccessible - quite the opposite, in fact.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2023

At the epicenter are well-intentioned lies that the film’s hypothesis has it are the lubricant that makes relationships work, while honesty makes each character question their grasp of reality, self-worth and professional choices.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 16, 2023

This gentle yet sparkling film features enough emotional honesty to have an impact, while Louis-Dreyfus's expressive performance is flanked by some reliably funny support from Michaela Watkins, Amber Tamblyn and David Cross.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2023

Where Holofcener takes this is both entertaining and insightful, reminding us that it's important to be nice, but perhaps not too nice.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2023

The film is mature, relatable and risks being terminally uncool – full of evident chagrin from Holofcener that she can’t be a new voice these days, but also comfortably embracing the old one.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 10, 2023

Smart, understated and charming, You Hurt My Feelings takes a realistic look at long-term relationships to create a subtly funny watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 10, 2023

…deals acerbically and instinctively with the nuances of everyday conversation and interaction, doubling down on the neurosis of the creative…

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 9, 2023