94% Frances Ha

All Critics (63) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (4)

Baumbach ... makes the film a celebration of Gerwig's coltish, goofball appeal.

Late-blooming 20-somethings have never been so perfectly captured -- and Gerwig has never been more appealing -- than in this funny, tender, life-affirming movie.

A modern fairy tale about a girl whose golden heart refuses to tarnish.

Like Gerwig's performance, it's natural, it's realistic, perfectly believable.

The film may be small, but it's really good.

Occasionally inspired, frequently charming and always watchable.

If Frances has a chance, there's hope for us all.

The near-incomparable Greta Gerwig gives Frances a fire, an exuberance, and a three-dimensional uniqueness that ensures the viewer never sways from her side.

It gives you two choices: find it delightful or don't: there is no unique, self-guided option. As frustrating as that conundrum may be, it's still hard not to take option one.

Without Gerwig, this story of a hopeful young woman making her way in New York would have been just like all the rest. Instead, it's a work of art.

But there's just something so relentlessly likable about put-upon, impoverished Frances (Greta Gerwig) that it almost doesn't matter that her New York is just one big Williamsburg.

Improbable yet engaging, this arrested development serio-comedy should be particularly endearing to those who can't quite get their lives together.

Baumbach's made an intermittently attentive comedy with a few intolerable detours, only as insightful as it wants to be.

The conversations sparkle with both intended and unintended wit, and in a certain cockeyed light, Frances' blithe denial of reality is a charming affirmation of life.

"Frances Ha" could have taken a very different, much darker direction, but not with Gerwig in it.

Brims with funny ideas both verbal and visual that are finely tuned by Baumbach and his cast, and sharply edited...

Passive-aggressive and expertly generational, Frances Ha is either hilarious or devastating, and probably both.

This movie has an endless supply of small but brilliant comic observations.

"Frances Ha" is a movie that will either remind you of what it was (or, if you're lucky, is) like to be young, or it'll make you feel really old. Middle-aged, at least.

The film boldly - and ultimately successfully - vastly favors character definition over plot, and favors character detail over laughs - although the second half (much more than the first) is very funny.

Greta Gerwig is delightful as an awkward non-dancer in this off-beat comedy

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