Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

cmahoney9-120-805838 After viewing "Tiny Furniture" I felt more depressed than I had before I decided to watch. Ms. Dunham drew me in, especially with her SNL appearance and growing popularity - both helped to make me wonder where exactly she came from.I can't think of a single spoiler because that would indicate a plot was in place, one with a twist and a back-story and a sub-plot. The only thing happening here is that Aura (Dunham)is trying to figure out her "So Called Life".In the mid 90's, this kind of film was for teenagers trying to figure out what they wanted for their lives, who they wanted to be as adults. Apparently in today's world, even four years of college doesn't help further things along in that department. In today's world it's perfectly OK to crawl back into your mother's womb (bed). To crawl back to a mother with no husband and no real joy in her life.The viewer will know Aura went to college, but not who her father is. Was she a test tube baby? Was her sister? No explanation about the man who helped birth her into her "So Called World".So it's feminist-bent and hipster-built and faith-less and artsy and a bit sad overall. I will admit that Dunham does have a good screen presence. She can do more with her stare than most actresses - and for that, she deserves credit.When I saw Aura's paycheck and the potential 'suitors' in her life, I thought, well... you voted for him. Twice! At least in "Reality Bites" post-grads had their own apartments!

leah2974 Even as a fan of indie films and movies that are driven by character over plot, I found Tiny Furniture to be appallingly bad. The characters are all not only stereotypes but despicable people. The dialogue is as bad as the dialogue in The Phantom Menace. Absolutely nothing is learned by the characters, and if anything could be learned by the audience, it would be a brief, boring insight into the lives of very, very dull people.Aura, the protagonist is an entitled, self-pitying post-grad student who flounders awkwardly through bad choices and bratty behavior and passes it off as self discovery. Aura's mother fits every cliché of the rich, distant, oblivious parent who simultaneously fosters and disapproves of her daughter's bad habits. The men at whom Aura throws herself are the worst part of the film. These men are supposed to be presented to us as unique and deep--one is broke and a freeloader, but he makes YouTube videos in which he quotes Nietzsche while riding a rocking horse. The other is a cook who cheats on his girlfriend and only shows interest in Aura after she indicates she can get him pills, but--he reads novels and wears a fedora. These men take advantage of her in the most blatant ways possible, apparently without her noticing.However, it's hard to feel sympathy for Aura when people take advantage of her because she also takes advantage of others. She takes her mother's money, food, and wine without a thought and lies when confronted about it. She reads her mother's diary without permission and lets a man she just met live in her mother's bedroom while she's gone. Aura has one friend in the film who seems to truly care about her. And while Aura appears ready to do anything for her new friends who treat her like trash, she ignores, snubs, and drives away the one good friend.The plot plods through the mundane activities of Aura's days. The more mundane the activity, the harder she fails in completing it. She is constantly late for her job as a day hostess. She can't rouse herself to put on pants for half the film. She is often shot lying on the floor, even while carrying on conversations, babysitting, and showering. All in all, the film is about a lazy, self-indulgent child in the body of an adult who, for whatever reason, is unable to handle any measure of responsibility. Pretension and privilege drive the film, which seems meant to cater to the hipster/indie film crowd on the surface level, without the depth of many other films in the same genre. A depressing, cliché movie at best and an abomination at worst.

Victoria Rickson Tiny Furniture is a film about exploration. The film its self was made as an exploration. Both Lena Dunham herself, and her character, are exploring their interests, using whatever resources they have available to them to discover who they are. Dunham uses her friends and family as actors, whatever camera she could get her hands on and her family's loft. This makes the whole story and theme feel consistent and realistic. A film about just leaving college shot on professional cameras with a million dollar budget just doesn't have the same raw feeling.The plot line is no action film, and it shouldn't be. The lulls and gradual character development are in line with the theme of the film, growing up. It can feel a little bland at times, but its real. It pulls the viewer in. It makes the viewer believe they are the one who just left college and are now stuck in their childhood home with no job and no aspirations. The characters develop just enough to be believable without over doing it.It is unfair that people are degrading this film because it is based on Dunham's personal life and experiences. She made a film about what she knows, and it works well for her. The comedy is intelligent and often subtle. The actors, brilliant (save for Dunham's younger sister). It feels real and relatable. Everything about this works. This is a brilliant film which hopefully will continue to gain viewers as Dunham becomes more prominent in the TV world.

mojojones77 By Maurice Jones 'Tiny Furniture' has a 'hipster' creed all over it by the look, which makes most people tray away from it. Myself being one of these people, I none the less decided to check it out as you can never always tell something just by the trailer and I heard Lena Dunham's life is as portrayed in the movie, so it wasn't necessarily a style choice, not that that's important.'Tiny Furniture' opens as you'd expect it too, down to the music. It unleashes a post 'Juno' independent film vibe that makes you wish more creative thought was put into this opening, however that's not the point to the film and if that is what Lena Dunham wanted to do based on reality, so be it.Immediately from the start you get an amateurish film making shot after shot, from which you start to feel as I did; how did Lena Durham even get her own T.V. show? The acting itself, is.... well, amateurish to say the least at first and once to get to meet Aura's friends some might not be able to get past the fact that everyone in the film looks dressed straight out of the 'Urban Outfitters' catalogue but this is not unbelievable or relevant. You soon realize that the spark of the film is not the style but the fact that the way the characters react to each other is quite real even to the point that the film allows you to figure out for yourself as to what Aura actually feels for her friends and family. It doesn't beat you over the head as to how to perceive each character but rather truly puts enough out there, and leaves you to put down your own slight possibility of who they are, kind of like figuring people out in real-life, which isn't easy to portray on paper. The film is also very aware of what the audience thinks or what the audience would do in certain situations. So, when you say to yourself, I hope this goes down this way because that's what would happen, it does. And with that I give Lena Dunham credit for being true to her audience self, therefore being a true movie fan and doing something realistic for the sake of logic and not for the sake of relating, which someone might misconstrued the movies point as. A movie like this is around to show that this reality is okay and exists, because as we all know, society imitates art. If you don't relate to this movie, it's probably because you're not in your twenties or you're less neurotic of a person but trust me the setting of the movie couldn't be less of the point. This is a different looking version of a too real reality of today's twenty-somethings.In the end 'Tiny Furniture' actually respects reality and what it has to offer as entertainment, avoiding emotional clichés, unlike the movie 'Young Adult' which involves many clichés, yet expects us to think it's different after it's all said and done. There are obvious problems with 'Tiny Furniture' but I've still haven't seen many movies like it, that respects the truth so much to allow it to play out as it does, that's why I like it, it's just straight up refreshing. To understand 'Tiny Furniture' you have to sit down and watch it in its entirety and see what happens, like life itself.