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Alynda Wheat, People: POOR (cg) "New student Lily (Analiegh Tipton) befriends a group of girls, led by Violet (Greta Gerwig), who couldn't be more patronizing and affected. Worse, the film is as self-satisfied as they are." (Read the full review...) 126 words, 04/05/12 Mary Pols, Time: EXCELLENT "I dare you to watch the joyful delirium of the big dance number, set to an old Fred Astaire tune, and not to feel an unexpected sense of rosiness. This movie may contain endorphins." (Read the full review...) 975 words, 04/06/12 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Beware the tart comedy that's enamored with its own quirkiness.... The offbeat style and oddly erudite dialogue irritate to the extreme." (Read the full review...) 112 words, 04/05/12 Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the contemporary young women and men at the leafy East Coast college called Seven Oaks carry on as if it's 1961.... a wan, self-consciously talky little drama..." (Read the full review...) 189 words, 04/06/12 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an exhilarating gift of a comedy.... This is the world as Whit Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 03/30/12 Claudia Puig, USA Today: MODERATE (cg) "...the distress will be felt by audiences... Its blend of slapstick, erudite dialogue and empty philosophizing is more convoluted than clever." (Read the full review...) 468 words, 04/06/12 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "Stillman writes his own dialogue, and is a master of clever double-reverse wit.... He's lucky to have found an actress in Gerwig who finds the perfect note..." (Read the full review...) 756 words, 04/13/12 James Rocchi, MSN Movies: EXCELLENT (cg) "...brisk, broad and bright... the zippy laughs and romance in Stillman's work have the speedy, hokey, agreeable air of an afternoon at the theater or the art house." (Read the full review...) 578 words, 04/05/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...a movie populated by young people who do not mumble, swear, punctuate their utterances with 'like' or think that an incredulous 'really?' represents the apogee of wit." (Read the full review...) 1,111 words, 04/06/12 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Greta Gerwig fits all the wry goings-on like a glove, even when Stillman's self-conscious, goofily articulate script threatens to drown the performers." (Read the full review...) 376 words, 04/06/12 Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Stillman too often substitutes pith for insight, until even that is drowned out by the sound of him chortling into his sleeve." (Read the full review...) 445 words, 04/06/12 Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's Gerwig who shines brightest, showing how Violet's striving and deceptions come not from conceit or meddling, but from her relentless intelligence." (Read the full review...) 614 words, 04/06/12 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the film -- a contraption, but a likable one -- establishes its own set of rules and sticks to them." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 04/13/12 John Anderson, New York Newsday: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a triumphant comic return of director Whit Stillman to the realms of skewed perception, willful blindness and blissfully blinkered belief systems." (Read the full review...) 386 words, 04/20/12 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: VERY GOOD "...wobbly and borderline twee, but it deepens as it goes along and becomes rich.... Whit Stillman is the most charitable of satirists.... he allows these poseurs to pick themselves up and find a better pose..." (Read the full review...) 715 words, 04/02/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "Stillman writes his own dialogue, and is a master of clever double-reverse wit.... He's lucky to have found an actress in Gerwig who finds the perfect note..." (Read the full review...) 756 words, 04/13/12 Eric Hynes, Village Voice: GOOD "...self-contained, unstably buoyant, and ardently frivolous.... Whit Stillman's cinematic sensibility is both plain as day and hard to pin down." (Read the full review...) 736 words, 04/04/12 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has an abundance of the erudite zingers that Stillman excels at writing, and that make his elegantly staged works seem like period pieces..." (Read the full review...) 581 words, 04/20/12 Rick Groen, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...great expectations are met with mild disappointment.... a mannered comedy, more stylized and theatrical, almost surreal at times, and less accommodating to his trademark brand of razor-sharp dialogue." (Read the full review...) 180 words, 09/07/11 Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...built around a tour de force performance from Greta Gerwig, whose facility with Stillman's distinct, nearly affectless patter is as impressive as her song-and-dance stylings are comically charming." (Read the full review...) 184 words, 09/12/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "It's a little more complex than it sounds, and much funnier, thanks to Stillman's ear for pompous dialogue and fondness for inspired running gags." (Read the full review...) 152 words, 04/19/12
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "...resembles the production number it concludes with - refreshing and earnest at first blush, but not executed with enough substance or genuine elan to make it stick." (Read the full review...) 469 words, 04/13/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "As 'Damsels' shambles merrily along, Stillman does show a new what-the-heck kind of playfulness." (Read the full review...) 383 words, 04/20/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...agreeably peculiar and endearing... In a sea of mean-spirited comedies, how wonderful to find one that openheartedly endorses happiness." (Read the full review...) 543 words, 04/20/12 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: MODERATE (cg) "Much like real college for many, it's an OK place to spend time, with some enjoyable memories, but by the end (a full-on, full-cast dance number) you can't wait to get out." (Read the full review...) 608 words, 04/20/12 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The characters watch Francois Truffaut and study Evelyn Waugh, but the movie's true sisters are 'Heathers' and 'Clueless' and 'Mean Girls,' satires with sharper claws." (Read the full review...) 906 words, 04/20/12 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: WEAK (cg) "...as dearly as it wants to be stuffed full of whimsy, I'm afraid it's full of something else." (Read the full review...) 552 words, 04/06/12 Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: POOR (cg) "...a film by a director giving in to the impulse to mock himself... Stillman has a better movie in him than this wretched mess, something from the heart, without the smirking." (Read the full review...) 288 words, 04/13/12 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: MODERATE (cg) "...an oddly retro tale of a group of college women determined to raise standards -- hygienically, musically, romantically -- at their school, mostly by singing and dancing." (Read the full review...) 255 words, 04/27/12 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "Some of it is dazzling in its drollery and quiet cheek. But more than a bit of it underwhelms, and some is appallingly flat." (Read the full review...) 453 words, 04/27/12 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...shockingly tone-deaf. Stillman is still capable of a few amusing quips, but his storytelling is sophomoric." (Read the full review...) 314 words, 05/04/12 Tom Long, Detroit News: VERY GOOD (cg) "Stillman has a nice time with the dialogue and assorted moral arguments, but the film would probably drag if it weren't so perfectly cast..." (Read the full review...) 303 words, 05/04/12 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "Whit Stillman's funniest and most accessible film... an inconsequential bauble -- but I laughed out loud in nearly every scene, and there are lines in the movie that still make me chuckle." (Read the full review...) 637 words, 04/27/12
Eric Hynes, Village Voice: GOOD "...self-contained, unstably buoyant, and ardently frivolous.... Whit Stillman's cinematic sensibility is both plain as day and hard to pin down." (Read the full review...) 736 words, 04/04/12 Katey Rich, Cinema Blend: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...colorful and witty and very cheerful. But it's also packed with the kind of quirk -- like pretty college girls who want to prevent suicide with tap dancing lessons -- that can get viewers checking out of the movie within minutes." (Read the full review...) 299 words, 09/14/11 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a feel-good, laugh-a-minute confection... in a tartly tongue in cheek, Whit Stillman way, an incisive, quasi-feminist analysis of male-female relations." (Read the full review...) 342 words, 09/12/11 Karina Longworth, LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...built around a tour de force performance from Greta Gerwig, whose facility with Stillman's distinct, nearly affectless patter is as impressive as her song-and-dance stylings are comically charming." (Read the full review...) 184 words, 09/12/11 Noel Murray, AV Club: OUTSTANDING (cg) "I was swept away by how original 'Damsels' is, and how funny. It's essentially an '80s-style campus comedy, in which dopey fraternity boys and prissy girls clash with artsy types, activists and ruffians." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 09/12/11 Jesse Hassenger, Pop Matters: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...while recognizably his own, 'Damsels in Distress' is also unlike any of Stillman's other films: it's sillier and stranger, less tethered to a recognizable reality." (Read the full review...) 828 words, 04/13/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...has the feel of a vanity project, lacking urgency -- like the work of a gentleman filmmaker who doesn't have to work." (Read the full review...) 858 words, 04/03/12 Miriam Bale, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Stillman's latest is not only his best, it's a boost for what American independent cinema could be." (Read the full review...) 1,027 words, 04/02/12 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "It's a little more complex than it sounds, and much funnier, thanks to Stillman's ear for pompous dialogue and fondness for inspired running gags." (Read the full review...) 152 words, 04/19/12
A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...a movie populated by young people who do not mumble, swear, punctuate their utterances with 'like' or think that an incredulous 'really?' represents the apogee of wit." (Read the full review...) 1,111 words, 04/06/12 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: GOOD "...peculiarly weightless and capricious.... casts an unaccountable spell -- a cool, thin-blooded charm.... Whit Stillman is a lightly mocking modernist with growing distaste for the modern." (Read the full review...) 728 words, 04/02/12 Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR: EXCELLENT "Stillman's writing has a singular intelligence that has become an increasingly rare pleasure in the movie theatre... Loony and erudite, blithe and well-meaning..." (Read the full review...) 487 words, 04/06/12 Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Stillman too often substitutes pith for insight, until even that is drowned out by the sound of him chortling into his sleeve." (Read the full review...) 445 words, 04/06/12 Dana Stevens, Slate: MODERATE "...stubbornly peculiar.... always surprising.... the Stillman style has come unmoored from its reason for existence.... flits prettily by without ever finding anything to be about." (Read the full review...) 900 words, 04/06/12 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: EXCELLENT "...weird, wacky and mostly wonderful... It's both a relief and a delight to discover that Stillman -- an Oscar nominee for his first script, 'Metropolitan,' way back in 1991 -- remains one of the funniest writers in captivity." (Read the full review...) 1,184 words, 04/05/12
Leslie Felperin, Daily Variety: OUTSTANDING "...an utter delight.... Stillman proves he still knows how to write crackling, articulate dialogue for quirky preppie characters whom he loves laughing at as much as with." (Read the full review...) 695 words, 09/10/11 Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: VERY GOOD "...wonderfully off-beat... this is in many ways Greta Gerwig's show: She's pitch-perfect here, infuriating and irresistible as a woman genuinely determined to influence world history by inventing a new dance-craze." (Read the full review...) 813 words, 09/10/11 Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: FAIR "Stillman too often substitutes pith for insight, until even that is drowned out by the sound of him chortling into his sleeve." (Read the full review...) 445 words, 04/06/12 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (cg) "...displays Whit Stillman's unique sensibility, facility with dialogue, and acerbic comedy." (Read the full review...) 356 words, 03/05/12 A.O. Scott, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...a movie populated by young people who do not mumble, swear, punctuate their utterances with 'like' or think that an incredulous 'really?' represents the apogee of wit." (Read the full review...) 1,111 words, 04/06/12
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