With a higher budget and better writing, this would have starred Kristen Wiig or even Zooey Deschanel but still be annoying. Lola Versus is effectively a full-length indie New York sitcom - imagine Friends with all the joy sucked out of it, or an even less credible set of relationships than How I Met Your Mother. All the characters are irritatingly unbelievable, with Greta Gerwig going for kooky but derailed by weak timing, Joel Kinnaman on auto-pilot but a reasonably likeable slacker-friend turn by Hamish Linklater (for the first half, anyway). Non-touristy New York is used well but sits at odds with these bizarrely unreal and largely unsympathetic characters.
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