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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 05 Apr 2012

Damsels contains much that's familiar to fans of previous Stillman films such as 1990's Metropolitan: looping jokes that build on one another,…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 05 Apr 2012

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…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 04 Apr 2012

Damsels in Distress is deliberately and purposefully irrelevant; its irrelevance is its strength…

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By Sam Adams (514) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Apr 2012

Stillman too often substitutes pith for insight, until even that is drowned out by the sound of him chortling into his sleeve…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 04 Apr 2012

Those expecting a familiar voice may be taken aback by [Stillman's] latest, which plays like Todd Solondz had remade Kenneth Branaugh's Love's…

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By Mary Pols (197) for Time (1,811) on 04 Apr 2012

It all sounds absurd and simplistic, but I dare you to watch the joyful delirium of the big dance number, set to an old Fred Astaire tune called…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 04 Apr 2012

Welcome Damsels in Distress, an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 04 Apr 2012

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…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for MSN Movies (470) on 04 Apr 2012

the zippy laughs and romance in Stillman's work have the speedy, hokey, agreeable air of an afternoon at the theater…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for Guardian (4,584) on 04 Apr 2012

If it's possible for a picture to be at once ideal and imperfect, then Damsels fits the bill…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 04 Apr 2012

Even if it did not have other charms, this peculiar, uneven campus comedy would be worth seeing for the delightful felicity of its dialogue…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 04 Apr 2012

These are hardly damsels, but the distress will be felt by audiences watching the collection of non sequiturs, twee remarks and tangential…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Apr 2012

Gerwig can't make her character come alive, though, and neither can Adam Brody as one of their neediest male cases…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 03 Apr 2012

Droll, sophisticated take on the dopey college-comedy genre, Whit Stillman's latest delivers the goods to the now more grown-up fans of his…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 02 Apr 2012

Too many movies come to us as preordained cult objects - this is the real deal…

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By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 Apr 2012

The thing that Damsels and its damsels value above all else - outside of well-timed, well-phrased, slyly deployed witticisms (Stillman hasn't…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 02 Apr 2012

How much you enjoy Damsels will depend on your tolerance for Stillman's particular brand of duct-taped Sperry Topsider whimsy…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 02 Apr 2012

Stillman's comeback comedy Damsels in Distress is wobbly and borderline twee, but it deepens as it goes along and becomes rich…

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By Miriam Bale (64) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 02 Apr 2012

The clash of styles in Damsels in Distress is bewildering and then disarming…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 01 Apr 2012

Damsels in Distress is wobbly and borderline twee, but it deepens as it goes along and becomes rich…

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