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2009
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83
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4.5
But first impressions dont begin to tell the tale in this honest, audacious high wire comedy.
Av Club
3.0
But first impressions dont begin to tell the tale in this honest, audacious high wire comedy.
Av Club
2.0
Writer director Lynn Shelton sweetly, mischievously tracks Ben and Andrew as they jaw, shoot hoops, roughhouse, and hug it out.
EW
4.0
What finally lifts Humpday above macho junk like The Hangover is its all inclusive warmth: for all their adolescent self delusion, Shelton truly loves ..
Time Out
2.5
The problem is not the farfetched contrivance of Humpday, but how unmoored it seems from anything but self satisfied cuteness.
4.5
Humpday radiates with the sheen of a film that has been thought out within an inch of its witty and insightful life.
4.5
But Sheltons story goes beyond mere bromance into an incisive study of masculinity today.
Screen Daily
4.5
But Sheltons story goes beyond mere bromance into an incisive study of masculinity today.
Screen Daily
3.0
Sheltons film takes a quantum leap in its funny and fearless third act.
3.3
Shelton often seems hemmed in by the high concept, but she manages to worm her way out so expertly that when its over, the whole thing feels like it w ..
Paste Magazine
4.4
Humpday uses it absurd premise for maximum comic discomfort and its this approach that should have audiences unable to look away unless they are doubl ..
E Film Critic
2.0
It sounds like cheerfully deranged junky fun, I suppose, but it just never quite comes together, either as a horror movie or as a goofy campfest.
E Film Critic
4.0
The film does a fair amount of squirming itself, but not before giving honest and hilarious thought to the carnal intricacies of the whole project.
Telegraph
4.0
What could have ended up as crass, cringy and possibly offensive actually results in a very funny and realistic treatment of the premise.
4.5
Or maybe its the hetero males tendency to avoid it thats the problem.
Cinema Blend
4.5
Do they or dont they If youre familiar with mumblecore, and its slice of life sense of plotting, youll understand when I say it doesnt matter.
Cinema Blend
4.0
One of the best indie films of the year, Humpday is a lighter descendant of sex lies and videotape, yet burrows just as deep into the male psyche and ..
Ny Daily News
4.3
I find it interesting that that the two best films about men that Ive seen this summer (The Hurt Locker being the other) have been directed by women.
JoBlo
2.0
I walked into Humpday expecting grainy, hand held art, and an episode of the The Honeymooners broke out.
Philly
3.0
She draws out top notch and naturalistic performances from Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard.
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
Has moments of insight and cleverness, but its pretty threadbare in every sense.
One Guys Opinion
3.1
Sheltons low fi treatment helps soften it, but too many overcooked moments still seep through.
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.5
The scenes between husband and wife are spectacularly awkward and arresting, though the movie grows more dubious the nearer the guys get to their shoo ..
Chicago Reader
3.0
Duplass gives a genial and entertaining performance (dont get me wrong, the film can certainly be amusing) although Leonard never makes Andrew the cha ..
2.0
This film is not very believable, and it really doesnt seem to go anywhere.
Lariat
3.0
But the topic has made Ben start thinking about deeper issues, like wanting to prove hes not as hopelessly white picket fence (i.e., dull) as Andrew t ..
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Most straight American men in their mid 30s probably wouldnt get themselves anywhere near Ben and Andrews situation, and some probably will protest, T ..
News Review
4.0
Sheltons wry script, together with a troika of perfectly judged performances, transforms a set up that has the potential to be endlessly distasteful i ..
Radio Times
2.0
But Humpday is funnier and more pointed than all of its predecessors.
Independent
3.0
Forget the buddy movie and the bromance, this wryly provocative comedy takes man love to a place of palm sweating uncertainty.
Independent
4.0
Shot in a disarmingly improvised style, its not clear whether this is a dramatic comedy or a very funny drama. Whatever it is, it boldly faces one of ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
In Humpday, Andrew cant help but compete with Anna, who has stolen his bro, or more precisely, his slowly receding notion of himself.
Pop Matters
4.0
The film is also notable for tackling a daring subject in an original and intriguing way.
View London
1.3
Few kinds of art are more boring than the insistently transgressive, and few movies are more boring than Humpday.
New York Post
4.5
Mumblecore comes of age with this smartly written and well acted, grown up version of a bromantic comedy.
Film Journal International ..
3.8
Theres something surprisingly perceptive about the way the film looks at male relationships and friendships.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.1
Humpday at least serves up some caustic laughs before fizzling out.
Boston
3.0
Forced naturalism is just that, and realistic dialogue as a synonym for boringly inarticulate isnt my idea of profundity.
Mountain X
4.0
The film ends up being about not just a really idiotic dare, but about the bounds of friendship and the bonds of marriage and about how unsettling it ..
Npr
3.0
The title suggests a titillating, frivolous film, but its actually a serio comedy about socio sexual taboos and the very nature of male friendship.
Emanuellevy
3.0
Its attractively performed, fairly amusing and worked out in a convincing if predictable way.
Guardian
3.0
The ending of the movie is an awful let down, which is a shame: the film had been weirdly involving and Alycia Delmore is good as Bens outraged wife.
Guardian
4.5
Joshua Leonard could easily have played the interloping Andrew as a party animal caricature; instead, hes a disarmingly vulnerable charmer.
Slate
1.5
Its interesting that Humpday, a movie as sneakily taboo nudging and subversive in a lot of the same ways as Sacha Baron Cohens Brno, opens on the same ..
Observer
3.0
But again, though this film has the more radical plotline, theres more daring stuff going on in a few moments of the very flawed Brno than there is he ..
Movies
3.0
It is, however, a highly charitable movie towards humans of all sexual persuasions and thats a very good thing.
Bullz-Eye
3.0
Its funny and sweet and curious about the nature of dude friendship, although Shelton, like her characters, equivocates a little too much about the ev ..
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
Fresh, funny and subtly insightful, this daring little indie bromance feels like the movie Hollywood wouldnt have the balls to make.
Total Film
4.0
Unlike a lot of institutional raunch in todays comedy, Humpday finds laughs out of what is rarely made explicit between buddies.
Calendar Live
2.0
Alycia Delmore gives a nuanced performance as Anna, but its the dumb as stumps performances from Duplass and Leonard that make Humpday a movie that yo ..
Coles Mithey
3.8
Delmore owns this scene, her transformation from perky good natured housewife to a ball of twisted, heartbreakingly confused fury spectacular in both ..
Movie Freak
3.8
Why Not: There really doesnt seem to be anything original in the premise for this movie.
3.0
Sheltons ability to get terrific performances out of an unknown cast borders on the astonishing.
Boxoffice Magazine
3.1
While Humpday doesnt add up to a staggering amount, and isnt always focuseda game of shooting hoops goes on for way too long around the forty five min ..
Dustin Put Man
3.8
...gives us a real feel for a friendship, its insecurities and the competition that results (especially in one of cinemas most amusingly pathetic game ..
Larsen On Film
3.1
A homo erotic adventure which gives bosom buddies a whole new meaning!
News Blaze
4.5
With its easy going pacing and consistently funny give and take, Humpday is more than just a one joke movie. Its a perceptive comedy about masculinity ..
Hollywood And Fine
3.0
Humpday doesnt sulk or snark like its brethren, instead shuffling toward a softer playing field of sexual identity.
Brian Or Ndorf
2.8
However, just because the screenplay by Larry Doyle veers away from realistic situations, that doesnt make it less entertaining, as long as youre able ..
Nyc Movie Guru
3.0
Writer director Lynn Shelton has crafted a richly rewarding script that enables the viewer with a minimum of effort to buy into an idea which in lesse ..
Sky
4.0
Humpday is a high concept comedy made for low budget money that might just be one of the funniest films of the year.
Entertainment Times Online ..
5.0
Humpday succeeds by grounding its risqu premise in the awkwardness and humor of real people trying their damnedest to communicate. A lot.
Chron
4.0
Its the psychology of this unlikely situation that makes this edgy buddy flick so fascinating and funny. Entirely ad libbed, its The Hangover with a b ..
Metro
3.8
This low budget art film about two straight men who drunkenly decide to shoot a porno together in the style of a low budget art film is actually kind ..
Or Lando Weekly
4.5
Its a comedy that grows beyond any Apatovian expectations and expertly avoids being an ode to Gay panic ala I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Streaming Quickflix
1.5
The musical performances in Gasts doc only whetted the appetite for more.
East Bay Express
3.0
There hasnt been a mainstream movie since maybe The Crying Game that has so subtly brought up the possibility of a mans bisexuality than Humpday.
4.0
Immensely enjoyable, an insightful and humorous depiction of complicated, yet ultimately simple, male drives.
Film4
3.0
It milks its edgy high concept for plenty of laughs, but it also does more. Shelton has made a touching, quietly disturbing comedy about the way our m ..
Film Blather
3.8
Yet, its one of the last films Im writing up and theres a reason.
Cinema Sight
4.5
Duplass is ever amiable, likeable, believable and straightman funny dude to the core.
3.1
Theres more believable, raw humanity here than in Michael Bays entire oeuvre.
Boston Phoenix
2.0
Ultimately devoid of anything much to say about sexuality or friendship.
Nicks Chager
3.5
Is there anything more stereo typical than straight guys locked in a mutual dare Well, here the stakes couldnt be higher, or funnier.
The Scorecard Review
3.0
In Old Joy, Reichardt achieved much more emotional resonance out of one aborted shoulder massage than the morass of discussion happening here.
Spectrum Culture
3.0
Even though Humpday has the mumble and flirts with hardcore, theres a hint of Emperors New Clothes about it.
Orlando Sentinel
3.0
Can director Lynn Shelton sustain enough interest building up to the will they or wont they resolution Yes, thanks single handedly to the cast.
Film Forward
3.5
Features excellent performances and a plenty discussion worthy take on personal and marital boundaries and the way that the same thing looks different ..
Metromix.com
1.5
Humpday typifies the low level indie film where characters talk out silly ideas they dont believe in anyway, just the pop confusion in their heads.
Ny Press
3.8
Transforms a thoroughly outrageous premise into a thoughtful study of the burdens of 21st century masculinity.
Critics Notebook
2.0
Sadly, the most interesting characters in Humpday are not the main focuses of the story.
Film Jerk
4.5
Which raises, of course, the unbearable spectre of missing entirely.
Cinema Scope
5.0
Mumblecore meets screwball in Humpday, an audacious character comedy that squeezes so much humor and pertinence out of its low budget and high concept ..
Gomemphis
3.0
Choices like that enable the modest Humpday to capture the lives of its protagonists more credibly than any Hollywood manufactured comedy of recent vi ..
Blog Oregonlive
3.0
Weve had romcoms now heres the first of the homcoms. And Ive gotta admit it made me feel both happy and gay.
News Of The World
4.4
In its unassuming, offhand way, Humpday gets the details of male friendship uncomfortably right the self denials, the macho bluster, the constant comp ..
Host Madison
3.1
It doesnt feel as if the performances are infused with improvisational vitality so much as it feels a little lazy, as if director writer Lynn Shelton ..
Washington Times
3.0
Lynn Sheltons film%u2014a promising premise in search of a payoff with more nourishment than room service steak and milkshakes%u2014frequently dazzles ..
James Wegg Review
4.0
The farce that follows is both ridiculous and surprisingly real, mining a very rich seam of comedy while also making some very sharp points about male ..
Un Cut
4.5
A very good dissection of friendship, sexuality, ego, domesticity, and our perceptions about who we are and how far we are willing to go to prove that ..
Movie Retriever
3.0
An intelligent, low key look at male sexuality which is sensitively handled. What a pity, then, that the endings such a let down... or an anti climax, ..
Daily Mirror (UK)
2.0
This is an excruciating dramedy of schadenfruede for the anything goes hipness of the last decade and a half which has devalued contentment as a cop o ..
Ie Weekly
4.5
This audience friendly indie sex comedy features almost no sex but plenty of nervous male bonding and a whole new angle on performance anxiety.
Seanax
3.9
Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Joshua Leonard) are two college friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Andrews gone globetrotting, ..
Ask Men
3.0
Though often very funny, writer/director Lynn Sheltons film lacks some of the insight into the awkwardness of male friendship found in recent mainstre ..
4.5
A whip smart, uproariously funny comedy which uses a bros will be bros dare as the in point to talk about the inevitable loss of self in long term rel ..
Blog Spout
0.5
While the dare itself seems almost contrived to make the movie happen, what transpires afterward is a very universal experience for people who take st ..
Las Vegas CityLife
3.5
Where Humpday really excels is in its depiction of Ben and Andrews relationship. After so many years apart, they speak easily and candidly to one anot ..
Tiny Mix Tapes
4.4
One thing usually that stands out in independent films is the amateurish acting, but thats not the case here. Every performance is right on the money ..
3.0
More sophisticated than a brief plot synopsis indicates, and it is one of the most observant and intelligent movies ever about male relationships.
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