No Hard Feelings
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 23, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
17
Negative:
4
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60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJun 26, 2023
The unstoppable force of Lawrence’s charisma notwithstanding, this is not so much tasteless, just a bit bland. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenJun 22, 2023
In its quieter moments, No Hard Feelings gestures towards real emotion. More often than not, though, it gets sidetracked by chaotic set pieces, with naked fistfights (the actress, surprisingly, goes full frontal here), mace sprayings and even an ingenious homage to The Shining, working Lawrence’s knack for slapstick to the funny bone. It’s fleeting fun, when a bit more honesty and candor might have made it her answer to Young Adult. Read full review
60
EmpireSophie ButcherJun 21, 2023
Much better appreciated as an unlikely friendship story than the raunchy comedy it’s billed as, No Hard Feelings is formulaic but fun, fuelled by the lead pair’s engaging chemistry. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyJun 21, 2023
Behind the lazy, shock-tactic humour lies a streak of genuine humanity, something to carry the film beyond mere butts and boobs. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJun 21, 2023
It’s a pleasure to find a comedy about bought sex that’s pretty funny – and funnier than the pun in the title might suggest. Read full review
55
ABC NewsPeter TraversJun 23, 2023
This R-rated sex farce only plays at being dirty. Behind the carnal jokes lurks a Hallmark heart. But a never-friskier or funnier Lawrence, as a 30-ish Uber driver hired to seduce a college-bound kid (terrific newcomer Feldman) is well worth the price of admission. The rest gets a hard pass. Read full review
55
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJun 21, 2023
Exhibits a superficial interest in ribald revelry and yet, in most respects, neuters its wilder impulses. Read full review
52
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzJun 23, 2023
No Hard Feelings tries so very hard to shock – to score that collective audience gasp – that it ends up clutching its own pearls. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comRendy JonesJun 22, 2023
If it wasn't for Lawrence and Barth Feldman's joint comedic excellence, with their commanding charm and chemistry fueling its laughs, No Hard Feelings would have been a disaster. But thanks to them, it's a serviceable summer comedy that should keep the J. Law lovers happy, even though her talents are better used elsewhere. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadayJun 21, 2023
By turns giddily coy and disarmingly frank, the movie doesn’t know if it wants to be a kinder, gentler Apatow or go full Farrelly. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonJun 21, 2023
In between the nudity and four-letter words, the film looks seriously at grief, arrested development and economic inequality, and there’s a sweet rapport between the two leads. A series of irritating plot twists and a predictable trajectory ultimately undercut Lawrence’s bravely brash portrait of a woman going nowhere fast. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 21, 2023
When you see No Hard Feelings, you realize that the film’s promise of risky business is little more than a big tease. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 21, 2023
While [Lawrence] is game for anything, whatever it takes to pound a laugh out of a moment, it’s not enough in a comedy that sprints out of the gate, buries us under zingers and turns all sensitive and sentimental as it pulls its punches in the second and third acts. Read full review
42
IndieWireJude DryJun 21, 2023
While there are moments of committed physical comedy and a few good line deliveries, the circumstances are neither believable nor outrageous enough to add up. Read full review
40
Little White LiesMarina AshiotiJun 22, 2023
Perhaps the demand for super low-stakes, “turn your brain off” studio comedies where the only point is cathartic laughter will one day return. It brings this writer no joy to report that No Hard Feelings isn’t the film to usher in that era. Read full review
40
Total FilmNeil SmithJun 21, 2023
Taste and laughs are in equally slim supply in Jennifer Lawrence’s latest, from which only her fresh-faced co-star emerges untarnished. Read full review
40
The TelegraphRobbie CollinJun 21, 2023
It’s not simply that its various comedic scenarios aren’t funny (though they aren’t); or that all of its would-be snappy one-liners drop on the floor like wet socks (though they do), or that the timing is so off that it feels like the film was edited with a spork. It’s that nobody on screen, Lawrence included, seems remotely invested in the exercise in the first place. Read full review
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