Humpday: Critic Reviews

Writer-director Lynn Shelton sweetly, mischievously tracks Ben and Andrew as they jaw, shoot hoops, roughhouse, and hug it out.

The movie's unblinking observation of a friendship put to the test is amused, queasy making, kindhearted and unfailingly truthful.

The ending of the movie is an awful let-down, which is a shame: the film had been weirdly involving and Alycia Delmore is good as Ben's outraged wife.

Humpday radiates with the sheen of a film that has been thought out within an inch of its witty and insightful life.

Humpday just wrings every uncomfortable laugh from its premise then shudders to a halt: cut, end credits.

Hilariously perceptive.

One of the best indie films of the year, Humpday is a lighter descendant of 'sex lies and videotape,' yet burrows just as deep into the male psyche and the human capacity for self-deceit.

Humpday succeeds by grounding its risque premise in the awkwardness and humor of real people trying their damnedest to communicate. A lot.

Even if the movie doesn't completely work, it's apt to leave you talking about it for days.

Getting to the showdown is a fine and funny journey.

Lynn Shelton's marvelous chamber comedy Humpday butts up against the same sort of taboos as Bruno, and in its fumbling, semi-improvised way, it's equally hilarious and even more subversive.

Humpday is funny, yes, but also observant and thought-provoking.

The scenes between husband and wife are spectacularly awkward and arresting, though the movie grows more dubious the nearer the guys get to their shooting session in a local hotel room.

While at times the improvisational dialogue sounds like audio filler, the three leads are poignant and perceptive. Likewise Shelton's film, considerably more complex than those 'bros will be bros' comedies of male bonding.

Writer/director Lynn Shelton's sexual sitcom is a lighthearted satire of machismo and insecurity where the laughs emerge from restless, uncomfortable silences.

It's interesting that Humpday, a movie as sneakily taboo-nudging and subversive in a lot of the same ways as Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno, opens on the same weekend but with a lot less fuss.

Few kinds of art are more boring than the insistently transgressive, and few movies are more boring than Humpday.

What's intriguing in this set-up is what the dare might teach the guys about the nature of sexuality.

[A] startlingly good comedy that makes Bruno seem barely daring.

The addlepated 'Humpday," wherein charcters laugh and laugh and laugh. So what's the joke?

Evolves so naturally it never feels outrageous.

Lynn Shelton's breakthrough bromance comedy is funny, sharp and true -- with no preachy sexual politics.

Humpday may not be the single best movie I've seen so far this year -- though it's certainly a contender for the title -- but it's without doubt the most surprising.

Shelton never follows up on the film's satirical possibilities.

Shelton shows great insight into the contradictory mind of the modern man.