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Touchy Feely

2013

Lynn Shelton

Rosemarie Dewitt, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Scoot McNairy ...

5.0

263

Drama A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his “healing touch.”

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Trading her improv-based filmmaking style for a more traditional screenplay-grounded model, Lynn Shelton delivers an uneven mix of half-formed conflicts in this mystifying dramedy"	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Laughs come less frequently here than in Humpday and Your Sister's Sister, but the writer-director's empathy for floundering characters is intact; the film should be warmly, if not rapturously, received by her fans"	POS
United States	Sam Adams Time Out	"Like her characters, Shelton doesn’t know what to do when things actually happen. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jeremy Kay The Guardian	"Shelton's migration towards more clear-cut drama is hampered by uneven tone and, most damning of all, dullness. (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Matthew Turner View London	"Despite its superb cast, Lynn Shelton's 'Touchy Feely' is a disappointing comedy-drama that raises some interesting ideas but fails to do anything interesting with them. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Its humor is softer and more ambiguous than that of Ms. Shelton’s earlier films, and its characters are harder to pin down."	NEU

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