Okay, it's really charming that this girl and her sister and mom look so natural on the screen, blah blah blah, that's out of the way.
Entitled privileged brat? So what? If you watch any old Woody Allen movie you see exactly the same thing: people in their early twenties falling into high brow writing careers and legal partnerships and bitching all the way, that's the genre. Lena manages to duplicate, or emulate, a Woody Allen movie complete with all the vulnerability, self-reflection and humor. She even drops one-liners, highly quotable ones: "I'm really tired. I took three klonopin and woke up next to a spoon full of peanut butter." And like a Woody Allen movie, there is no plot and the hero doesn't change or learn. But you'll stay interested. I would have given it an "8" but her Obama commercial was heinous. As a netflix movie, it's a strong 7.
Entitled privileged brat? So what? If you watch any old Woody Allen movie you see exactly the same thing: people in their early twenties falling into high brow writing careers and legal partnerships and bitching all the way, that's the genre. Lena manages to duplicate, or emulate, a Woody Allen movie complete with all the vulnerability, self-reflection and humor. She even drops one-liners, highly quotable ones: "I'm really tired. I took three klonopin and woke up next to a spoon full of peanut butter." And like a Woody Allen movie, there is no plot and the hero doesn't change or learn. But you'll stay interested. I would have given it an "8" but her Obama commercial was heinous. As a netflix movie, it's a strong 7.