You Hurt My Feelings
The latest film by Nicole Holofcener, Friends With Money director and queen of dysfunctional character development, follows Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a novelist whose longstanding marriage is rattled by the discovery that her husband isn't keen on her new book. These types of situations tend to encourage a fun thought exercise—what would you do if it happened to you?—but frankly, I'm at a loss. That's what makes this type of film so interesting, though. The A.V. Club refers to the plot of You Hurt My Feelings as "the ne plus ultra of low-stakes cinema," and it's true—the characters are wealthy, bagel-munching New Yorkers who live in a brownstone and, as it turns out, still aren't impervious to the little things that eat away at all of us.
by Lindsay Costello