Review of Girl Most Likely

To me the current IMDb rating of six is more accurate than the tomatometer rating of 14%. The IMDb rating is right in line with the audience rating of 58% on Rotten Tomatoes. I think the critics got it wrong on this one. Maybe they were expecting a raunchy commercial comedy like Bridesmaids. But the only similarity between the two movies is the leading actress. Girl Most Likely is a quirky indie drama about a dysfunctional family. It has a few amusing scenes, but I wouldn't call it a comedy, especially not the type of comedy that's currently popular. It's an enjoyable movie if you accept it on those terms, particularly if you like Kristin Wiig and Annette Benning. Rotten Tomatoes described the film as "largely witless and disappointingly dull." That description might be accurate...if you're talking about Frances Ha, a similar movie that the critics gushed over. As for the "false and forced finale" (as one critic put it), it's not that different from the feel-good ending of Francis Ha. Go figure.