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- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Interessante è anche il ritratto senza sconti del milieu di letterati e giovani artisti newyorchesi, assai più cinico, narcisista e disinvolto di quanto ci si potrebbe aspettare
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal
- Excerpt: Noah Baumbach’s second generational comedy of the year after ‘While We’re Young’ aims for Greta Gerwig screwball retro fizz instead of Ben Stiller anxiousness and nearly succeeds.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Along with the soaring Frances Ha, Mistress America is evidence that Gerwig the actor is at her best when interpreting the words of Gerwig the screenwriter. She plays Brooke to perfection, making her delusions of having been wronged or of opening a restaurant pitiably transparent while always keeping her charismatic and magnetic enough to buy that Tracy would be in her thrall.
- [New – 12/17/15] | Robert Cashill @ Popdose
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: …the film’s abrupt switch from character-driven comedy into a slamming door farce feels like these players suddenly decided to put on a play, adding cast all trying to hit their marks while layering their lines over each other.
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: Mistress America displays some awkwardness as it balances its setup against its torrent of jokes.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The heart of this thing is absent.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk Online
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘Mistress America’ is Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s latest collaboration, which achieves exceptional levels of witty discourse and complex relationships.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Shallow and superficial, it’s filled with insufferably pretentious poppycock…
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: On several occasions I was compelled to simply shake this woman free from her all-encompassing fog of self-interest. It’s inexhaustible.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: A mashup of Baumbach’s usual bohemian caprice, a John Hughes-ish lark, and old-fashioned screwball comedy, all rapid-fire wit and snark and aching wisdom.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Combine Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig and magic happens. A flighty self-obsessed 30 year-old mentors maudlin college freshman.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: If “Frances Ha” was Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s paean to Woody Allen and the French New Wave, “Mistress America” is more of a light, breezy college comedy with a hint of Whit Stillman literacy before making an about-face into a screwball comedy with some emotional depth.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Don Lewis @ Flick Nation
- Matthew McKernan @ FilmWhinge
- Excerpt: A funny and a likable novella of a film
- Jared Mobarak @ Jared Mobarak Reviews
- Excerpt: I’m beginning to think that’s Baumbach’s goal: to make his audience hate his characters and therefore hate themselves in the process. It’s working too because even sympathetic Baby Tracy is hard to love considering her opportunism and duplicitous nature.
- Jonathan Ricjards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America strains mightily at madcap comedy, hitting its mark sporadically, more often missing the beat.
- Don Simpson @ Smells Like Screen Spirit
- Excerpt: Rhythmic delivery and unabashed verbosity fuels the wild and whimsical spitfire dialogue spoken with free-flowing fancy.
- Andrew Wyatt @ St. Louis Magazine
- Excerpt: Once the viewer adjusts to the film’s particular tone, it become apparent that the sharp-eyed Baumbach can imbue even broad character comedy with his distinct brand of cutting, tossed-off wit.
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