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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Some scenes are served up like haiku. Others seem like abstracts of notes [Holofcener] scribbled to herself after sessions at the 'I'm OK, You're OK' corral. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A chick flick of a particularly intelligent, ruthless, and loving sort. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: A film of this sort demands superb, seemingly effortless acting, and Holofcener gets it at every turn. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I don't think this movie loves women at all. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's a smart-talking, slice-of-life comedy/drama that could just as easily be titled Our Bodies/Ourselves. Read more
Loren King, Chicago Tribune: Delivers a surprising, moving portrait of contemporary womanhood. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: An insightful, heart-rending/wrenching/ warming take on the besieged state of modern womanhood. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: With a cast that includes some of the top actors working in independent film, Lovely & Amazing involves us because it is so incisive, so bleakly amusing about how we go about our lives. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Performances are potent, and the women's stories are ably intercut and involving. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: It's amazingly perceptive in its subtle, supportive but unsentimental look at the Marks family. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Both subtler and spikier in its perception of the ways that modern women can sabotage the freedoms they crave [than Walking and Talking]. Read more
Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: This is a fine, funny, humane film. Read more
Rasmi Simhan, Dallas Morning News: In their love for each other and their ability to move on, the women are, in a way, lovely and amazing. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Lovely and Amazing is Holofcener's deep, uncompromising curtsy to women she knows, and very likely is. When all is said and done, she loves them to pieces -- and so, I trust, will you. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing, from her own screenplay, jumps to the head of the class of women's films that manage to avoid the ghetto of sentimental chick-flicks by treating female follies with a satirical style. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Zeroes in on contemporary narcissism and its fallout with a relentless, needling accuracy that illustrates exactly the way some people allow their personal insecurities and tics to poison their intimate relationships. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here is a movie that knows its women, listens to them, doesn't give them a pass, allows them to be real. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer and Brenda Blethyn shine in a delicate, loose-limbed and tremendously alive indie about women, family, self-image and survival. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A gutsy little picture and a nice slice of life. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The impressive thing about Holofcener's non-judgemental generosity with character, which at times recalls an American Mike Leigh, is that she makes no concessions to easy endearment. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Observed without corny resolutions and paced to allow for reflection, the film is understated but spot on. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: The auteur's ear for the way fears and slights are telegraphed in the most blithe exchanges gives the film its lingering tug. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The ensemble Holofcener has assembled comprises some of the best actresses working today, and they inhabit their roles with the astringency and softness these characters demand. Read more