Funny Ha Ha
Goodbye Cruel Releasing | Release Date: April 29, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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90
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Bujalski takes a sledgehammer to the carefully ordered surfaces and dramatic conventions of narrative cinema, favoring instead an unpredictability in which the crosscurrents of quotidian life collide on the screen in a series of brilliantly alive patterns. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
As David Rakoff once wrote, "Youth isn't wasted on the young. It is perpetrated on the young." Exactly how is brilliantly captured by Andrew Bujalski in his debut feature, Funny Ha Ha. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Bujalski celebrates the awkwardness of twentysomething life, allowing Dollenmayer to create a beautifully authentic portrait. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
A smartly observed, unpretentious, and unconventional comedy of manners -- or more properly, it's a comedy of mannerisms. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Andrew Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha, an ebullient sliver of a movie, follows a group of men and women in their early 20s, and for once the un-dialogue dialogue doesn't come off as an affectation. Read full review
80
VarietyRobert Koehler
A beautifully observant and wholly unpretentious film with roots more in Cassavetes than Sundance-style showbiz. Read full review
80
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The final scene is as close to perfection as any Amerindie has come in recent memory--in a single reaction of Marnie's, we see a small but definite shift in perspective; abruptly, Bujalski stops the film, as if there's nothing more to say. It's a wonderful parting shot for a movie that locates the momentous in the mundane. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
It is a small, plain movie, shot in 16 millimeter in dull locations around Boston; but also, like its passive, quizzical heroine, it is unexpectedly seductive, and even, in its own stubborn, hesitant way, beautiful. Read full review
80
Film ThreatEric Campos
The kind of film that you just don't want to end. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
Funny Ha Ha is often offhandedly funny, and Bujalski has a knack for letting scenes build and then cutting out abruptly, duplicating the flow of a life in flux. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
The dialogue is so real that it makes you wince, then laugh. Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Andrew Bujalski's refreshingly modest look at life in the directionless netherworld between college and career is the rare film that finds its story in the minor contradictions and simple conflicts of ordinary people doing, well, not exactly nothing, but nothing important. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Like a lot of scenes in Funny Ha Ha, the commonplace somehow seems invigoratingly original. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Bujalski has a knack for the genuine moment. Read full review
70
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Dollenmayer has managed to transform a sad sack into an indie screen goddess. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The look is rough, but Bujalski's talent is evident. Read full review
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