A charming, if limited, romantic comedy that examines post-collegiate angst with easy, unself-conscious humor.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
A pointed and nicely observed screenplay that guides us on an often funny journey through familiar terrain made fresh by their off-center sensibility and three fine performances.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: Melissa Levine
Like "Funny Ha Ha," Andrew Bujalski's casually raw 2002 faux–cinema vérité indie about a bunch of shiftless twentysomethings, The Puffy Chair uses simple, unadorned dialogue and intimate, off-the-cuff performances to get at the underlying issues.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
While it would be accurate to call the film a comedy, the Duplasses are trying to wrestle something closer to Chekhov than to farce out of the lives of these semi-likable, highly recognizable people.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Ostensibly a road-trip farce, Chair really depicts the highway to man-child hell: The laughs come from the gulf between how mature the characters think they're being and what emotional toddlers they are.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
Its fidelity to its characters’ view of the world -- although they are presumably college graduates, they seem never to have read a book or expressed an opinion -- is more a liability than a virtue. The Puffy Chair is as modest as their ambitions and as narrow as their curiosity about the world beyond themselves.Read Full Review »
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