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The Little Hours

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Canada, United States · 2017
Rated R · 1h 30m
Director Jeff Baena
Starring Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza
Genre Comedy

In this anachronistic dark comedy set in the Middle Ages, a group of nuns find themselves struggling with their vows of chastity after the arrival of a new gardener who's in hiding from his master. Loosely based on Boccaccio's The Decameron, this film puts a modern spin on Medieval drama.

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The Verge by

Writer-director Jeff Baena has squeezed heart into this film, particularly with a surprisingly sincere, potent ending. Beneath all the bodily fluids and sex jokes, Baena and his actors show a deep fascination with the way we communicate our love, romantically and platonically — especially when the going gets tough.

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TheWrap by Claudia Puig

The Little Hours is no one-trick pony. While the lunacy of nuns who swear like sailors makes a comically boisterous impression, it’s also about women in the Middle Ages forced into religious life for various reasons and how they cope, viewed through a decidedly humorous lens.

75

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Matching a crackling wit with the absurd dissonance of time and place found in the best of Monty Python and Mel Brooks, Little Hours is so eager to please that its one-note humor lands with ease.

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The Film Stage by Jordan Raup

It’s far from achieving the holy grail of comedy, but as a frivolous, fleeting time, The Little Hours has its charms thanks to the strength of its cast.

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ScreenCrush by Matt Singer

On paper, The Little Hours sounds like a combative anti-religious tract, but Baena’s less interested in mocking the church than in basking in the gulf between humanity’s lofty aspirations and its baser instincts.

75

The Playlist by Noel Murray

Even if The Little Hours never becomes a knee-slapper, it’s consistently entertaining…kind of like a laid-back, stretched-out Monty Python sketch.

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