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Lola Versus

Comedy

Dumped by her boyfriend just three weeks before their wedding, Lola enlists her close friends for a series of adventures she hopes will help her come to terms with approaching 30 as a single woman.


The critical consensus

Winsome as ever, Gerwig ensures this insubstantial but occasionally charming rom-com is likeable, even if it packs all the punch of a cream puff.

***(*)(*)Ian Freer, Empire Online, 17/07/2012

Poorly written, clichéd and almost impossible to invest any real empathy in any of the characters.

**(*)(*)(*)Sherwyn Spencer, Little White Lies, 19/07/2012

Directed/co-written by Daryl Wein, the dialogue zips (“find your spirit animal and ride it ’till its dick falls off”), and Gerwig charms, but the laughs fall flat under the incessant naval-gazing.

**(*)(*)(*)James Mottram, Total Film, 19/07/2012

Lola versus…the audience. Or versus anyone who wants a couple of hours in the cinema without screaming in pure irritation.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 19/07/2012

The narrow plot it tills between self-pity and self-absorption (very New York) becomes an awful drag and an actor as talented as Gerwig really shouldn't have to do so much whining.

**(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 20/07/2012

While Lola has a faintly charming childlike artlessness to her, it’s a pity there are so few laughs for what’s alleged to be a comedy.

**(*)(*)(*)David Edwards, Daily Record, 20/07/2912

Lola Versus has its amusing lines, but the dialogue is nowhere near as clever as it thinks, and even Gerwig's goofy appeal wears off after you've watched her moping for an hour.

Nick Barber, the Independent on Sunday, 22/07/2012

The producer, Michael London, has been associated with some rather good films, but this is not one of them.

Philip French, The Observer, 22/07/2012

Lola Versus' one saving grace is Greta Gerwig, who really deserves to be getting better, more grown up material at this point in her career.

**(*)(*)(*)Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film, 19/07/2012

If Lola Versus is about a woman floundering, as a film it can be accused of the same.

**(*)(*)(*)Emma Simmonds, The List, 27/07/2012

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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