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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 05 Sep 2019

The movie sometimes seems (like its title character) to drag its feet. It’s messy, but with the untidiness of real life…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 31 Aug 2019

The thing that truly makes the movie, though, is Bell…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 29 Aug 2019

Thanks to an ambitiously layered script from Paul Downs Colaizzo (who also directs with a steady grasp of comedic pacing and a nice visual…

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By Matthew Monagle (156) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 28 Aug 2019

Brittany certainly deserves a happy ending, just perhaps not quite in the time allotted…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 28 Aug 2019

Thankfully, the movie approaches this subject the way one might a used car, with suspicion and an extra helping of mordant humor…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 28 Aug 2019

An engaging, modestly amusing, sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious comedy of manners in which the usual millennial excesses are skewered, from…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 28 Aug 2019

Calaizzo’s script is sharp, funny and honest, and nicely avoids movie cliches about obesity…

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By Barbara Vandenburgh (315) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 28 Aug 2019

Brittany is funny and authentic, but she can also be prickly and stubborn, even hard to like. You know, the way real people are…

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By Chandler Levack (49) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 Aug 2019

Things other studios might frown upon are its greatest strengths, including a charming ensemble of actors often relegated to bit roles (Michaela…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 27 Aug 2019

On balance, I admire the hell out of Collaizo for choosing to tell a more emotionally convoluted story, even if it sometimes kills the momentum…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 26 Aug 2019

The movie is very hard on its protagonist, and not all the obstacles, humiliations and setbacks escape the realm of cheap pathos…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 23 Aug 2019

Far from being just a simple comedy about fitness and weight loss, Brittany’s journey includes the healing and forgiveness it takes to really…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 Aug 2019

A singular amalgam of humor, heartache and self-help that won the U.S…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 22 Aug 2019

Brittany Runs a Marathon starts comically; its first moments, with Brittany working as an usher at an off-Broadway theater are its funniest…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for TheWrap (3,203) on 22 Aug 2019

The script is stocked with amusing one-liners, and there are just enough caustic observations to keep viewers nodding in agreement…

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By Teo Bugbee (199) for The New York Times (9,847) on 22 Aug 2019

Bell imbues Brittany with humanity and wit, but all too frequently she is working within the framework of a story that seems hellbent on robbing…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 21 Aug 2019

There are no noisy meltdowns or hyper-dramatic revelations in Brittany Runs a Marathon; even the lines that sting have some buoyancy…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 21 Aug 2019

The tone of “Brittany,” and its emotional impact, reminds me of Amazon’s other heartfelt winner, “The Big Sick,” which netted Kumail…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 21 Aug 2019

A fun ride, spiked with touching gravity, is not a shabby way to end the movie summer…

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By Caroline Siede (75) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Aug 2019

Brittany Runs A Marathon winds up feeling like a story told by an outsider who’s empathetic toward, but not fully immersed in, a specific…

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