It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

What is it about American movies? Ten minutes into this movie, I knew it was directed by a woman. Female directors of Hollywood comedy/dramas don't seem to understand that if this is your target audience, it should by definition contain some semblance of both comedy and drama maybe?A one and a half hour movie should contain more than purely the 'emotions' of the characters involved. Things like an interesting story-line maybe, or snappy dialogue, quirky characters or a sub-plot? There were maybe three lines of dialogue in this movie which could be classed as mildly humorous, and ditto for the 'drama' content. The rest was just fluff.Toni Collette is a very watchable actress as evidenced in movies like 'About a Boy' and 'Little Miss Sunshine', but here she struggled like the rest of the cast. A dialogue driven movie should have good dialogue....and yes I do recognise good dialogue...from 'His Girl Friday' to 'The Sunshine Boys' to 'Sideways' and many more.James Gandolfini is the only reason I'd give this movie more than a three. In spite of the story-line and script, he manages to transcend those limitations to create a character of warmth and vulnerability.Another reviewer waxed lyrical about this being a fitting end to James Gandolfini's career.....They're wrong because it wasn't this touchy-feely mess thankfully! His last movie was 'The Drop', an excellent movie and a fitting finale to a fine actor.

Divorce is usually a detail assigned to a character to make him or her more complicated or provide some context for his or her world. Rarely does it play such an integral role as it does in "Enough Said," the latest from Nicole Holofcener. Starring two actors still best known for their star-making television turns, there's a lot about second chances in this story of two middle-aged parents giving each other and themselves the benefit of the doubt.There's something so touching, raw and frankly surprising about the chemistry between Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the late James Gandolfini. Louis-Dreyfus is certainly not known for down-to-earth characters and Gandolfini made his name playing a Mafioso, yet what they have on screen is tender and honest. Holofcener really gets them to click and appear so completely relatable.Much of "Enough Said" is simply these two navigating each other and their relationships with their children and exes. The only conflicts (though it's a big one) is when Louis-Dreyfus' Eva learns that Gandolfini's Albert is, amazingly enough, her new client/bestie Marianne's (Catherine Keener) ex-husband. Eva's fear that the truth will ruin both relationships pivots the narrative entirely around when Albert and Marianne inevitably find out.The simplicity is refreshing and charming in a way, but also leaves something to be desired. Holofcener sheds a lot of truth on divorced life and what it's like to raise an 18-year-old with your ex while moving onward, and the simplicity of her story allows this to really sink in, but it's not all that challenging. It's real and it connects, but there's no internal struggle for the viewer to have, perhaps because Eva's situation is so unlikely. The consequences of it all, namely the challenges Eva has with her daughter, Ellen (Tracey Fairaway) and Ellen's friend Chloe (Tavi Gevinson) plus Albert's issues with his daughter (Eve Hewson), create some familiar, smaller conflicts, but they are ancillary at best.Yet it all comes down to Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini making a tangible connection to the audience. Their relationship is raw, awkward – not glamorized like most mainstream films targeting a 40- 60 demographic. In fact, Keener's character, among the least likable, represents that kind of Hollywood-So Cal sheen in a way, perhaps to highlight that distinction. Regardless, "Enough Said" strikes some resonant chords when it comes to relationships and not just romantic ones. Any film that can reach that level of depth deserves a wholehearted commendation. Thanks for reading! Visit moviemusereviews.com for more

Enough Said (2013)We used to come up with the phrase, "It's a Nora Ephron movie." And we knew what that meant, a contemporary "woman's picture," focusing on women and appealing to women viewers. Now there is a slightly more acerbic and less bubbly update, "It's a Nicole Holofcener movie."She might hate that idea—Ephron is a great writer but is sometimes maligned for being too glib and feel-good. And that's the pleasure of a Holofcener movie, a more real and delicate slice of life. This kind of aura depends on great acting—and we have that here. James Gandolfini is terrific, and his sometimes flame here, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is his match. Both are nuanced and deeply engaged in a restrained and very believable way. It's right on.There are no pyrotechnics here, no outrageous turns of plot, no murders or improbable dramatics. Which means that this is not a roller coaster wild ride. It's just some normal people figuring out their lives. But so well done you get involved. It might not seem like enough sometimes, that the revelations of the main characters don't really matter enough, but that's how it is, that's how life is.So, yes, it works as a movie, and is absorbing. It sometimes skims clichés, especially with their children who are not developed as characters. But what it nails, it nails beautifully.

I didn't like it all.First lets get some things straight, I'm a male, 25 years old and living in Belgium, Europe. I don't know how relationships and marriage works in the USA at the moment, but I didn't saw anything I could identify with. I think the whole scenario didn't make a real point in the end, and without giving spoilers, I think it really shows how USELESS and bad behavior doesn't get punished in the end. In short, the scenario takes you on a boring ride and at the end, I didn't get what I was hoping for, no in fact it all comes down to the beginning again. The filming was horrible. It was a standardized style which make the movie even more cold. And the absence of real locations bugged me. So to wrap this up, I was bored, I think the movie was Cold, it does not identify with real live, dialog do not contribute to the viewer his life or to the movie plot etc.So why three. Gandolfini! For me he really brings some warmth in the film and tries to his best. His acting performance was good. Although I don't understand why he signed for this script anyway. Because I will repeat myself, this was one of the most boring movies I watched in a long time. Because I couldn't even laugh with it at the point it lost my interest.