You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

Director/writer Nicole Holofcener is a master of cringe and we loved her story of an insecure writer/professor who accidentally discovers her struggling therapist husband has been hiding his opinion of her work. The sharp dialogue is interpreted by the spectacular cast headed by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies as Beth and Don, with Michaela Watkins as Beth's sister Sarah, Arian Moayed (his character of Sarah's husband is also splendidly insecure), Owen Teague as Beth and Don's son, and Jeannie Berlin as Beth and Sarah's mother. Amber Tamblyn and David Cross, married in real life, are among the cameos playing Don's patients and their marital bickering is predictably hilarious.

It's been two busy weeks since we saw it so I can't remember much about the score by Michael Andrews and it's not available to stream. I did find this Spotify playlist of the songs.

Holofcener was last blogged for The Land of Steady Habits, Louis-Dreyfus for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Watkins for The Way Back, Teague for To Leslie, Berlin for The Fabelmans, Tamblyn for Nostalgia, Cross for Sorry to Bother You, and Andrews for The King of Staten Island. I haven't seen most of Menzies' many projects but did appreciate his work in five episodes of Catastrophe, ten of This Way Up, and twenty of The Crown as Prince Philip to Olivia Colman's Elizabeth. Moayed has been in, among many, eleven episodes of Madam Secretary, all nine of Inventing Anna, and twenty-five of Succession as Stewy.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics are feeling thrilled with an average of 94%, while its audiences are a bit miffed at 64. We rented it June 27 on Apple TV/iTunes.