Lola Versus (2012)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 53
It's fun to see Greta Gerwig mature her acting career but Lola Versus -- with its unpleasant characters and completely familiar script -- does not succeed as her first major leading role.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 15
It's fun to see Greta Gerwig mature her acting career but Lola Versus -- with its unpleasant characters and completely familiar script -- does not succeed as her first major leading role.
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Greta Gerwig plays Lola, a 29-year-old woman dumped by her longtime boyfriend Luke (Kinnaman) just three weeks before their wedding. With the help of her close friends Henry (Linklater) and Alice (Lister-Jones), Lola embarks on aseries of desperate encounters in an attempt to find her place in the world as a single woman approaching 30. -- (C) Fox Searchlight
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Cast
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Greta Gerwig
Lola -
Joel Kinnaman
Luke -
Zoe Lister Jones
Alice -
Hamish Linklater
Henry -
Bill Pullman
Lenny -
Debra Winger
Robin -
Maria Dizzia
Woman Subletter -
Jonathan Sale
Fantasy Bar Guy -
Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Nick -
Adriane Lenox
Professor -
Ray Iannicelli
Man at Restaurant -
Kathryn Kates
Woman at Restaurant -
Jay Pharoah
Randy -
Cheyenne Jackson
Roger -
Kena Anae
Member of Henry's Band -
Jeanine Moss
Member of Henry's Band -
Micah Joe Parker
Member of Henry's Band -
Parisa Fitz-Henley
Peggy -
Bill Kocis
Hypnotist -
Izzy Ruiz
Strip Club Man No. 1 -
Tobias John von Freyend
Strip Club Man No. 2 -
Víctor Cruz
Bodega Worker -
Sandor Tecsy
Plaza Man -
Rob Yang
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All Critics (81) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (54) | DVD (3)
It's such a mopey, navel-gazing affair that even Gerwig has a hard time saving it.
Top CriticAn extremely smart, exquisitely funny film about finding yourself amid the clang and clutter of contemporary life.
Lola Versus is all Greta all the time, a bonanza for fans and proof that Gerwig's easy offbeat charm, obvious smarts and physical comedy gifts can carry a film.
There's a Fitzgeraldian sense of generational malaise in all of this, but "Lola Versus" is convinced that it's hilarious.
It's a wonder Gerwig manages to keep the character endearing instead of grating, but she does.
Gerwig remains one of the most captivating new stars to hit the big screen, but she's still looking for a movie that deserves her.
I didn't dislike this movie because I'm a man. I generally disliked this movie because I felt the main character was a bit pathetic.
Lola Versus is for anyone who still finds the self-involved romantic-comedic travails of a floundering yet privileged aspiring writer amusing.
Lola Versus is a misguided attempt at a romantic-comedy that doesn't feature one bit of originality. The only thing even slightly holding it together is Greta Gerwig, who does her best to stop the film from falling apart.
Lola Versus has plenty of potential, but with a script that has absolutely no handle on its lead character, the experience quickly becomes unbearably frustrating.
More enjoyable than it ought to be.
So awesome, universe! The world hasn't been full enough yet of movies about women who are almost totally obsessed almost exclusively with romance that we cannot use one more of them. Hoorah!
There's a distinct lack of individuality and insight and, appositely enough, if Lola Versus is about a woman floundering, as a film it can be accused of the same.
[An] hour and a half of wearisome quirk and smut...
The producer, Michael London, has been associated with some rather good films, but this is not one of them.
It doesn't always succeed but this sometimes affecting, sometimes darkly funny film is perfect sofa fodder for anyone nursing a broken heart.
Gerwig's dreamy style worked in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress, because the movie created an eco-system of oddity in which that style could thrive. But here it just grates.
Gerwig's done enough good work to allow us to chalk this one up as a glossy blip.
Enjoyable relationship comedy that commendably avoids some of the usual clichés and succeeds thanks to Greta Gerwig's natural charisma ...
Gerwig charms, but the laughs fall flat under the incessant naval-gazing.
Essentially, this is Gerwig's natural charm versus her character and script's lack of it.
Greta Gerwig makes something of a success out of this mixed bag of rom-com tropes and indie quirks.
[Gerwig's] presence in the center almost makes "Lola Versus" watchable even as it starts to get formulaic, preachy and tiresome.
... at heart it's just a trite and shallow Hollywood rom-com ...
"Lola Versus" is a heavyweight fight Gerwig just can't win.
Audience Reviews for Lola Versus
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The movie is full of the usual indie cliches, the kooky friend, the whacky liberal parents, the artistic nice guy and the hunky bad boy. The irony is that Kinnaman is portrayed as the villain of the piece yet comes across as the only remotely down to earth character. He has a maturity and a self-realization that none of the others possess. Despite being on the brink of their thirties, they treat life as if they are still in their teens. The whole thing reminds me of that nineties TV show "Felicity". Gerwig and her irritatingly quirky best friend Jones seem to think the world revolves around their orgasms, or lack of.
I suspect female viewers will find it hard to sympathize with Lola. After all she's an attractive and seemingly financially stable young woman who gets hit on by men on a regular basis. It's a bit like a female variation on "The Brothers MacMullen", a movie where three hunky brothers faced the earth-shattering dilemma of which of their various hot girlfriends to stick with.
There are times you'll just want to give Lola a good shaking. At one point she agrees to have dinner with a guy who is clearly a couple of futons short of a Greenwich loft. She then unbelievably allows him to penetrate her without a condom. Maybe Julian Assange was a technical advisor? Lola is an idiot who gets everything she deserves and a terrible role model for young women. The movie should be retitled "Lola Versus the Audience".
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- Lola: I'm power eating.
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