R | 1h 43m | Comedy | June 23, 2023
Why on God’s green earth did Jennifer Lawrence choose the low, low bar R-rated sex farce “No Hard Feelings” to do full-frontal nudity in is beyond me. A classy, artsy movie, ok, but a comedy about a 32-year-old woman who seduces a nerdy high school boy in order to get a Buick as payment from his helicopter parents, so he’ll be prepared for girls at Princeton? Where’s the discernment? This is Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence we’re talking about. Also Katniss in “Hunger Games.” She can’t need the money this badly.
Was she maybe convinced by the fact that the surface veneer of raunch hides a caramel-y, Hallmark-y heart that “redeems” it? Maybe the jokes looked good on the page, and since J-Law can do comedy with the best of the A-list actresses—she just couldn’t resist?…