Walking and Talking

Only once dipping into huggy sentimentality, we are happily spared the run-of-the-mill best mates saga the premise threatens. Instead this is ...

Reasonably lifelike and nicely acted (Keener is especially good), but otherwise nothing special, this is an OK light comedy.

I don’t want to damn Holofcener’s efforts with faint praise, but the best way to describe Walking and Talking is to say that it’s...

It’s a downright refreshing experience to be presented with people you can identify with, recognize yourself in them, without being aske...

If the very idea of another movie about a bunch of overprivileged thirtysomethings and their relationships has you reaching for your revolver...

Rarely does a first film depict characters who seem so comfortably familiar, and even less frequently are these characters three-dimensional w...

One thing I like about the film is the way it teasingly introduces elements that, in other films, would lead to big dramatic formulas, and the...

Holofcener has an ear for dialogue, and, as is often the case with the best character – centered films, a chief pleasure is simply enjoying wh...

Concentrating on the fine-tuned trivia that fuels so much television comedy, it also creates two bright, appealing heroines and watches them face l...

Walking and Talking is saved from utter banality by a script dotted with occasional buoyant moments of tenderness and wit, as well as by the l...

Holofcener has a wonderful breezy touch. She hides life issues in such sweet moments, you barely notice them as they go down.