You Hurt My Feelings

⭐ 7.5/10

(Originally written by Tim)

This was a nice little watch, a cool hour and a half movie that has a bunch of laughs and familiar faces that popping up. Its about Julia Louis Dreyfus, who is a writer, and her husband played by Tobias Mezies, having a bit of a late-middle life crisis. She is a writer, he is a therapist, both are convinced they are terrible at their jobs. She spirals when she overhears him admitting that he doesn't like her latest book. They talk about it, talk to their friends and family about it, there is a feel good conclusion.

This movie made me laugh a couple times, and every scene is just people in rooms talking. It felt pretty indie, and even though its filmed in New York it feels like a small film. It felt a bit too indie in that every scene kind of hit you over the head with the theme of the movie. That motif is clearly the lies we all tell each other, whether they are okay, how you can love someone and still not be completely honest with them. I liked the theme, but eventually I thought it lost its effect where every scene was another display of someone being dishonest or insecure. Kind of my only complaint, and not a huge deal in a movie this breezy.

Not a ton to say. The therapy scenes made me laugh, I always like Dreyfus and her sense of humour, and something about Tobias' face keeps me glued to the screen.