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Noah Baumbach's 2005 breakthrough "The Squid and the Whale" is a terrific film and one of the best of the last decade.

On paper it sounds unbearably precious and solipsistic; a cliche, even. Middle-class, college-educated white girl in her mid-20s wanders around New York City with no real home, job or purpose.

Greta Gerwig makes "hapless" a happening thing in Frances Ha . Which is no surprise, because she's spent her brief career mastering variations on a hapless theme.

The title of Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha is an allusion to something at the very end of the film, a visual suggestion that part of the heroine has been amputated during the course of what we have seen during the previous 86 minutes - a part that has something to do with the youth, exuberance, innocence, enthusiasm, idealism and a powerful attachment ... (more)

Lena Dunham 's Girls broke the glass ceiling for funny, thoughtful twentysomethings on HBO's small screen, but this summer, more ground is being covered for women of all ages on the big ones.

If you want to see Greta Gerwig's new film, "Frances Ha," you're going to have to do it the old-fashioned way: by going to the movie theater.

Summer still isn't here but, don't tell that to film distributors who are releasing a batch of hot, new features to theaters.

Noah Baumbach is the dour, whipsmart filmmaker whose "The Squid and the Whale" was a merciless examination of upper-class divorce.

Plot: Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer.

Woody Allen may be a national treasure, and his movies come and go every summer as regularly as the Perseid meteor shower.

It's easy to create a miserable character if you plan on making him happy and well-adjusted by the end of the movie.

If you want to see Greta Gerwig's new film, "Frances Ha," you're going to have to do it the old- fashioned way -- by going to the movie theater.

Back in 2007, screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore pitched director Todd Phillips "What Happens in Vegas," a raunchy comedy about a bizarre bachelor party in which the groom went missing.

She's not quite grown into womanhood yet. But at 27, she's past the age where acting like a kid holds more charm than social-life penalty points.

With theaters packed with car-crashing, planet-saving and comically crass blockbusters, fans of smaller, more thoughtful movies must feel neglected during summertime.

Greta Gerwig makes "hapless" a happening thing in "Frances Ha." Which is no surprise, because she's spent her brief career mastering variations on a hapless theme.

Greta Gerwig isn't "good" at acting in the way that indie-rock bands often aren't "good" at their instruments-a certain lack of grace affords her performances a sloppy, realistic charm.

Noah Baumach's new film Frances Ha opened recently in New York and Los Angeles to terrific reviews and a weekend of sold-out shows.

Golden haired, lovely and perpetually frazzled, Greta Gerwig is the current darling of indie cinema, first conquering the zero budget boho world of "Mumblecore" then moving into the slightly higher profile art house fare of notable director's like Whit Stillman .

Imagine Woody Allen directed a three-episode arc of HBO's "Girls" as a black-and-white homage to the French new wave.