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By Robert Kojder (605) for Flickering Myth (680) on 04 Oct 2018

Anytime we hear positive news regarding a new procedure, Rachel's (Kathryn Hahn) joy is palpable, and we are just as ready to cry right there…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Oct 2018

Jenkins can find the humor and bleached-out irony in something as sterile as a hospital’s oppressively white walls—it’s a true talent…

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By Caroline Siede (75) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 04 Oct 2018

Despite its carefully measured comedic voice and the detail with which it depicts the IVF process, the film never quite manages to feel like…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 04 Oct 2018

Hahn is one of the best actresses working today, and it's a thrill to see her at the center of a film, jagged with heartbreak, rage, hormones…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for 812filmreviews (121) on 04 Oct 2018

Private Life will stand as one of the high points of Giamatti and Hahn's respective careers…

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By Cath Clarke (570) for Guardian (4,584) on 04 Oct 2018

What an intelligent, emotionally grown-up film. More of this please…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 04 Oct 2018

The film's writer-director, Tamara Jenkins is a brilliant chronicler of upper-middle class white people and their foibles, and her eye for…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 04 Oct 2018

It’s a little long and leisurely. However, fueled by Rachel and Richard’s baby mania, it never drags…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 04 Oct 2018

Jenkins uses her gift for capturing intimacy as a weapon, telling a story that’s sometimes brutal, other times acidly funny, but always honest…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denerstein Unleashed (254) on 03 Oct 2018

You don't have to have had any experience with the difficulties of getting pregnant to enjoy a comedy that is saved from charges of urbane…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Oct 2018

Jenkins does something daring with the story's resolution – conceptually brilliant, but you may think that it pays a small dividend on a…

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By Ed Potton (195) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 03 Oct 2018

The struggle to conceive isn't a new subject, but this comedy drama highlights its fraughtness and absurdity via a perceptive, often hilarious…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Oct 2018

What Sadie brings most importantly to Private Life is the lovely, sometimes loopy and always infectious joy she takes in living…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for NPR (1,713) on 03 Oct 2018

Jenkins has made a film about marriage and family and personhood, catching Rachel and Richard at a time in their lives where something is missing,…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Oct 2018

Jenkins constructs an entire narrative from little exchanges, reveries, complications and setbacks…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Oct 2018

As both writer and director, Jenkins pushes us to rise above judgment by steadfastly refusing to indulge in it herself…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 03 Oct 2018

In its busy closing stretch, there is a fine group portrait of characters coming to terms with the difference between what they might never…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 03 Oct 2018

Though it is poignant and funny in nearly equal measure, the most remarkable aspect of Private Life may be its lack of noticeable exaggeration…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 Oct 2018

The comedy, while unflinchingly honest and prone to bandying about such terms as “intracytoplasmic sperm injection” and “follitropin,”…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 03 Oct 2018

Jenkins (director of The Savages and Slums of Beverly Hills) is always more interested in emotional truth than she is in laughs…

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