A twentysomething slacker (Justin Rice) moves to New York City to pursue his musical ambitions in the ironic indie comedy MUTUAL APPRECIATION, a followup to writer-director Andrew Bujalski's equally wry debut, FUNNY HA HA.
Theatrical Release: September 1, 2006
Review 1:
"[C]harming....Bujalkski works in streaky black and white, looking back all the more to Cassavetes..." -- Grade: B+
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.139 09/08/2006
Review 2:
Ranked #17 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006."
Source: Film Comment
p.36 01/01/2007
Review 3:
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Writer-director Bujalski has an authentic sense of the meandering daily lives and navel-gazing conversations of young urbanites..."
Source: Premiere
p.88 04/01/2007
Review 4:
"In Andrew Bujalski's micro-budget comedies, about the shapeless lives of American twentysomethings, things almost happen, repeatedly....The sense of narrative incompletion is evoked most effectively in Bujalski's editing style."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.73 05/01/2007
Review 5:
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he naturalistic approach is part of the charm of the film, evidently inspired by the two giants of US indie cinema John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch."
Source: Ultimate DVD
p.104 06/01/2007