Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Il nuovo film di Noah Baumbach, regista e sceneggiatore indie sensibile e minimalista, dichiara subito le sue intenzioni: Frances Ha è un ritratto di donna, completamente dedicato alla sua protagonista, la straordinaria Greta Gerwig.
- Jason Bailey @ The Atlantic
- Excerpt: This portrait of New York post-graduate ennui is sometimes warm, sometimes funny, and sometimes acidic, but it’s also surprisingly daring—because it makes the rather unorthodox suggestion that finding a nice fella is not the all-purpose solution to a young woman’s problems.
- Chris Barsanti @ PopMatters
- Luke Bonanno @ DVDizzy.com
- Excerpt: No matter what you choose to take from it, Frances Ha has an extraordinary amount to give and in just 86 minutes of your time.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Gerwig, beyond a doubt, is immeasurably appealing, and Frances Ha is tailor-made to showcase her gifts better than anything she’s ever been in.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: The comic misadventures of a quirky young woman who falls down seven times but gets up eight.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …like an early Andrew Bujalski movie with more articulate characters or Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls’ without the ick factor. Gerwig has never been better, at ease wearing Frances’ awkward, socially challenged charm.
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: It’s also nostalgic, not for a distant past, but for the present, and the ever shrinking window of time in which it is possible to defer adulthood in the hope that you’ll make it and never have to really grow up. What gives the film poignancy beneath the comedy is the tension between Frances’ aimlessness, her inability to imagine a life plan that doesn’t involve dancing, with the very pressing reality that she might not be good enough to make her passion into a career.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: If Frances has a chance, there’s hope for us all.
- Dustin Freeley @ MoviesAboutGladiators.com
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Improbable yet engaging, this arrested development serio-comedy should be particularly appealing to those who can’t quite get their lives together.
- Ali Gray @ TheShiznit.co.uk
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have carved out, with effortless elegance and ease, a cinematic space for a woman to be, unapologetically, herself.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- [New – 12/13/13] | Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Carson Lund @ Are the Hills Going to March Off?
- Excerpt: Frances Ha is a compassionate, complex drama about people trying to find footing in their own chaotic lives.
- Peter Martin @ Dallas Film Now
- Brent McKnight @ Beyond Hollywood
- Excerpt: I don’t love ‘Frances Ha’ as much as everyone else.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ SouthPhillyReview.com
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: The true achievement of Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha is how effortlessly it captures the inconsistencies of youth without being overly precious or dishonest.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: For anyone that has ever tried to plug a square peg into a round hole, or if you’ve ever been forced to grow up, Frances Ha is the film for you.
- Don Simpson @ Smells Like Screen Spirit
- Excerpt: During its 86-minute run time, Frances Ha flips the flaws of this world upside down, revealing the amazements and joys of life. They just don’t make movies like this one anymore.
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
- Ron Wilkinson @ ItsJustMovies.com (IJM)
- Excerpt: A major leap upward for both Baumbach and Gerwig, disarming, funny and genuine, in spite of the New York City backdrop.
- Andrew Wyatt @ Look/Listen (St. Louis Magazine)
- Excerpt: Between Gerwig’s characteristically charming performance and Baumbach’s nimble cinematic storytelling, Frances Ha finds its footing as a wry, woebegone tale of arrested development.
