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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 20 Jul 2017

The momentum peters out by the end, but by then its job is already done. The Little Hours is good for some big laughs…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 19 Jul 2017

Whether or not Baena does right by Boccaccio, he definitely does right by Aubrey Plaza, his girlfriend and indie comedy's reigning queen of mean…

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By Cecilia Nowell (1) for Bust Magazine (182) on 19 Jul 2017

An utterly wild ride, The Little Hours covers a lot of ground in its hour and a half…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 17 Jul 2017

A rowdy romp told with an astute sense of character and a fine sense of restraint…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 16 Jul 2017

The piecemeal nature of Giovanni Boccaccio's source material only adds to the sketch show feel, with as many moments missing the mark as hitting it…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 14 Jul 2017

The result isn't like the fake documentaries of Christopher Guest (Mascots) but one's appreciation of the largely pleasingly filthy humor will…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 13 Jul 2017

Baena orchestrates events with confidence and flair, allowing his amazingly talented cast room to frolic as they all work in tandem to make…

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By Brooke Corso (225) for The MacGuffin (26) on 13 Jul 2017

It's as if Woody Allen remade The Devils from a script by Neil Simon…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 13 Jul 2017

With only an outline for a script, Baena counted on his cast to improvise the dialogue -- and it turns out all these funny people don't automatically…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 13 Jul 2017

No matter how obvious the set-up – what if men and women of the cloth were … rude and sexy…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 12 Jul 2017

It's easy to admire the efforts of the cast here. It's much harder to admire the result…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Jul 2017

The Little Hours is a very silly idea that works perfectly, reinterpreting a story from Boccaccio's magnum opus as a goofy, cheerfully vulgar…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 12 Jul 2017

It's slight, silly fun, in the manner of an extended Saturday Night Live sketch, and Baena gets a lot of mileage out of the whole nuns-behaving-badly…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 12 Jul 2017

True, The Little Hours is essentially a one-joke comedy — but most of the jokes under the umbrellas of that one joke are pretty damn, I mean…

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By Andrew Marshall (56) for Starburst (899) on 11 Jul 2017

The humour is unabashedly crude and the dialogue largely improvised, but what could so easily have been merely a single Nuns Gone Wild joke…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Jul 2017

I liked a lot of writer-director Jeff Baena's picture; it may be a one-joke movie, but I've seen comedies recently that would've killed for that many…

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By Betsy Sherman (101) for Arts Fuse (166) on 11 Jul 2017

The performances are to be savored, with the three stars doing great work despite the constraints of their clothing…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 10 Jul 2017

For all the silliness, there's something lovable about Fernanda, Alessandra, and Genevra by the end of their profane rampage, and that's enough…

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By Sr. Rose Pacatte (156) for National Catholic Reporter (122) on 10 Jul 2017

The characters talk as if they were cast members of a half-hour prime-time sitcom set in really old Italy with no attempt at historical…

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By Elias Savada (386) for Film International (130) on 09 Jul 2017

The flippant dialogue dismisses some of the more obvious inconsistencies (a problem if you're working without a script)…

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