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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerLena Dunham, the writer-director-star of the microbudget Tiny Furniture, has a distinctive comedic take on the world – a kind of haggard spiritedness.
- 88Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe movie is full, assured and extremely wry.
- 75Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayA funny, affecting movie about growing up in the shadow of a formidable mom.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's hard enough for a director to work with actors, but if you're working with your own family in your own house and depicting passive aggression, selfishness and discontent and you produce a film this good, you can direct just about anybody in just about anything.
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubSan Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubWhat Dunham lacks in polish, she makes up for in her ability to observe her generation, with the hardest truths coming at her own expense.
- 70Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyWhat the film does well is capture the confusion of the identity abyss of twentysomethings of a certain social class.
- 63Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrDunham has been justly praised for her determination in getting Tiny Furniture made, but the movie itself has been overpraised as a result.
- 63St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsIn skewering the neuroses of New York bohemians, Durham has left us too little to care about.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoBoxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoA small film about enormous fears.
- 50Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesA tolerably warm bath of postcollegiate self-pity, salted with irony and self-mockery.