A beautifully observant and wholly unpretentious film with roots more in Cassavetes than Sundance-style showbiz.
80
Village VoiceDennis Lim
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The final scene is as close to perfection as any Amerindie has come in recent memory--in a single reaction of Marnie's, we see a small but definite shift in perspective; abruptly, Bujalski stops the film, as if there's nothing more to say. It's a wonderful parting shot for a movie that locates the momentous in the mundane.
It is a small, plain movie, shot in 16 millimeter in dull locations around Boston; but also, like its passive, quizzical heroine, it is unexpectedly seductive, and even, in its own stubborn, hesitant way, beautiful.
80
Film ThreatEric Campos
Film ThreatEric Campos
The kind of film that you just don't want to end.
75
New York Post
New York Post
The dialogue is so real that it makes you wince, then laugh.
70
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Like a lot of scenes in Funny Ha Ha, the commonplace somehow seems invigoratingly original.