‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence Is A Comedy Queen In Raunchy & Heartfelt Comedy

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In a post-COVID world, the raunchy drama hasn’t had the easiest clip connected the roadworthy to the large screen. Movie theaters person been each astir the latest blockbuster oregon Marvel installment. That’s wherefore No Hard Feelings is specified a refreshing dainty for those that truly conscionable privation to person amusive and belly-laugh their mode done a astir 2-hour movie.

Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman successful ‘No Hard Feelings.’ (Sony/Everett Collection)

Jennifer Lawrence stars arsenic Maddie, a young pistillate connected a ngo to prevention her mom’s house. After failing to wage her spot taxes, her car is taken away, which prevents her from Ubering done the Montauk summer. She leaps astatine the accidental to “date” a 19-year-old named Percy successful speech for a car.

After a less-than-stellar introduction, Maddie and Percy deed it off. Maddie begins to attraction for Percy and urges him to amusement the satellite conscionable however large helium is. As Maddie pushes Percy retired of his comfortableness zone, helium helps her not beryllium truthful acrophobic of change.

No Hard Feelings wouldn’t enactment the 1 and lone JLaw. The Oscar victor had a crisp emergence to superstardom with The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook. Although her filmography is stacked, she’s ne'er done a drama rather similar this. Jennifer dives headfirst into this wild, hilarious, envelope-pushing role, and doesn’t look back. She feels close astatine location successful the drama satellite — her comic timing is fantabulous — and looks similar she’s having the clip ofher life.

Andrew Barth Feldman, who plays Percy, is each spot Jennifer’s equal. Their chemistry creates a cleanable equilibrium successful the film. For his diagnostic movie debut, Andrew proves he’s a unit to beryllium reckoned with connected the large screen. The histrion besides gets to amusement disconnected those unthinkable vocals with a stunning soft screen of the Hall & Oates opus “Maneater” that whitethorn conscionable permission you successful tears.

Jennifer Lawrence arsenic Maddie. (Sony/Everett Collection)

There’s the contented of the property spread betwixt Maddie and Percy, with Maddie being 32 and Percy being 19. No Hard Feelings addresses this problematic constituent and, thankfully, doesn’t romanticize it.

No Hard Feelings isn’t a game-changing comedy, but it’s precisely what we request close now. The movie is 1 of galore movies retired this summertime that beryllium you inactive person a blast astatine the movies and not person to beryllium a big-budget superhero film. You’ll laugh, gasp, and possibly adjacent teardrop up implicit the people of No Hard Feelings. So beryllium back, relax, and bask JLaw’s ride.

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