Hannah Takes the Stairs

"Perfectly encapsulates the slow-motion, frustrated feeling of early adulthood..."

"(Gerwig) manages to make her character somehow appealing despite her utter self-involvement."

"Joe Swanberg has an uncanny talent for making the randomness of downtime feel as alive as it seems generationally true."

"When it works, it works like a charm."

"Swanberg nails the inane fun of youth."

"Unfocused and indulgent."

"Maddening for 60 of its 83 minutes."

"There is something teeth-grindingly cutesy about the whole thing..."

"Wears out its welcome about halfway through..."

"How can a movie with such a charming cast and believable dialogue (seemingly taken from the actors' real lives) go wrong? It can't."

"There's only so much twentysomething navel-gazing one can listen to before wanting to slap some sense - and some fully formed sentences - into them all."

"Smart and engaging.. too many meandering breeze-shooting sequences."

"Gerwig (turns) her terminally anxious character into a poster girl for an entire subset of young women on the verge."

"(Gerwig's) captivating ordinariness helps hold the movie together."

"Swanberg is accurately charting the social rituals of the young and inarticulate."

"At what cost, naturalism?"