"Lovely & Amazing" is scarcely how the principal characters regard themselves in Nicole Holofcener's second feature, a comic take on female insecurity in general and modern American women's ...

In Nicole Holofcener’s film Please Give, a buyer and seller of rare and valuable furniture surveys what’s been left behind by a deceased mother whose son just wants to get rid of everything. Along ...

Nicole Holofcener is laughing at her Caesar salad, a sparse, pathetic-looking thing she ordered with no croutons and dressing on the side. "I’m nuts," says the writer-director of the breezy new comedy ...

Like the 1996 film "Walking and Talking," the title of Nicole Holofcener's second movie, "Lovely & Amazing," is poised on a small but powerful conjunction. That grammatical construction aptly conveys ...

“Lovely and Amazing” is a powerful call to arms – a women’s movie that casts aside the banalities of its genre to look at a group of women who have become incapable of separating physical ...

In Nicole Holofcener’s first feature, 1996’s Walking and Talking, the writer/director warmly portrayed an adult female friendship, nudging at emotional issues without resorting to shtick or melodrama.

On the surface, Lovely & Amazing looks like Divine Secrets of the Fried Green Magnolias. But unlike many chick flicks, it doesn't expect us to adore its characters for their flamboyant eccentricities ...

An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks ...

From an offhand mention of fat-free cookies to the drastic step of liposuction, self-esteem issues are at the core of writer-director Nicole Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing, a perceptive and eerily ...

If you hated those ya-yas and their divine secrets as much as I did, try Lovely and Amazing. In this painfully funny and touching look at the vanities and insecurities that a mother (Brenda Blethyn) ...