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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: Gerwig is the heart of the movie. She gives a beautifully contained performance as Violet. Read more
James Rocchi, MSN Movies: ...the zippy laughs and romance in Stillman's work have the speedy, hokey, agreeable air of an afternoon at the theater. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Even if it did not have other charms, this peculiar, uneven campus comedy would be worth seeing for the delightful felicity of its dialogue. Read more
Logan Hill, New York Magazine/Vulture: Stillman is in fine form, depicting this campus as a kind of Ivy League Idiocracy. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Damsels in Distress is wobbly and borderline twee, but it deepens as it goes along and becomes rich. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: There's a self-consciousness to "Damsels" that takes away much of the fun. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Even though I'm not sure I understand what Stillman was going for minute-to-minute, I was swept away by how original Damsels is, and how funny. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Presumably meant to come off as affected in a comical way, the characters too often sound arrogant and ridiculous. Sometimes that's funny. Sometimes it's not. The ratio doesn't really work out the way you would like. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: This a fun group of actors to watch, although it often seems that Stillman is unsure of what to do with them. Read more
Tal Rosenberg, Chicago Reader: The premise -- young rich people discover themselves -- recalls that of Stillman's older features, but his characteristic naturalism is replaced here by overlit scenes, a saccharine symphonic score, and a halting narrative momentum. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: [It] concerns a young woman either adopted by a fabulously odd trio of new pals or indoctrinated into the most twee cult in collegiate history. It's all in your receptivity to Stillman's brittle humor. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: In its own superannuated preppy way, Stillman's comic universe is as singular as Woody Allen's. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: The film would probably drag if it weren't so perfectly cast, especially with the gawky-beautiful Gerwig as its center. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Whatever imaginary era writer-director Whit Stillman has in mind, the customs he explores in this wan, self-consciously talky little drama intrigue him more than they do his audience. Read more
Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: Highbrow campus-comedy from long-lost Whit Stillman is a flawed but frequently hilarious comeback. Read more
Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Stillman too often substitutes pith for insight, until even that is drowned out by the sound of him chortling into his sleeve. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Damsels in Distress ambles about amiably without much of a narrative: Plot has never been Stillman's strong suit, and in this film he seems particularly indifferent to its demands. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: The acting and the music are delightful, the jokes arrive on schedule, and everything sort of glows. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: Stillman's film casts an unaccountable spell -- a cool, thin-blooded charm. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: It's a cri de coeur that hardly rises above a sociable interjection, an exhortation to collective revelry that leaves a sense of uneasily imposed, even quasi-martial, paces. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Maybe it would have been better in black-and-white. Read more
Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR: Even were it not so delightful, Damsels in Distress, set at a fictional upper-crust college, would deserve a watch for its dialogue alone. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Just as precise and self-consciously precious as predicted. Which doesn't mean it hasn't got moments of charming wit buried under all its archness. Read more
Farran Smith Nehme, New York Post: This delicately funny and romantic film feels like an auspicious return. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Whit Stillman? I'm there. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's delightful and a little bewildering to find a 2012 comedy that evokes a world that exists only in the novels of P.G. Wodehouse. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Damsels in Distress is an exhilarating gift of a comedy. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Flat scenes, weak characters and a disjointed and almost nonexistent narrative. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Too ethereal to be a satire and too arch to be a psychologically recognizable character portrait, Damsels in Distress flits prettily by without ever finding anything to be about. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's a slight piece of work, but agreeably peculiar and endearing. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Like a degree in gender studies, there's no payoff. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Alas, for this fan of Whit Stillman, great expectations are now met with mild disappointment. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: While by no means his strongest work, even secondary Stillman goes leaps and bounds beyond what most of today's hacks try to pass off as romantic comedy. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Innocence deserted teen movies ages ago, but it makes a comeback, revived and romanticized, in this joyous anachronism. Read more
Cath Clarke, Time Out: While the comedy might be patchy, Gerwig and Stillman make for quite the two-step. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Fortunately, Damsels has an abundance of the erudite zingers that Stillman excels at writing, and that make his elegantly staged works seem like period pieces, even though they're set in modern times. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: These are hardly damsels, but the distress will be felt by audiences watching the collection of non sequiturs, twee remarks and tangential vignettes that is Damsels in Distress. Read more
Leslie Felperin, Variety: A film that raises laughs even with its end credits, Whit Stillman's whimsical campus comedy Damsels in Distress is an utter delight. Read more
Eric Hynes, Village Voice: Considering the socioeconomic moment into which Damsels arrives-we're not in the go-go Clinton era anymore, Toto-it's relieving how scarcely Stillman's reactionary subtext bubbles to the surface. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: A movie sure to reward the filmmaker's most die-hard fans, while doing little to quiet critics who found his work self-conscious to the point of insufferability. Read more