No Hard Feelings follows Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) who has recently been down on her luck. She’s behind on payments for the house her mother left her and her car is towed right when summer season is ramping up and she’d otherwise be making bank driving for Uber. Stumbling upon a Craigslist ad placed to hire a date for socially awkward Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), Maddie thinks her prayers will be answered. Turns out she couldn’t be more wrong.

This is hands down Lawrence’s film. She is magnetic as our leading lady. I don’t think I have seen her in a comedic role before, but her timing was so on point and I also thought the physical comedy was well done too. She should explore this avenue more in the future.

What makes the film work so well is the friendship that develops between Maddie and Percy. Though it may start off as a business deal, it doesn’t stay that way for very long. As the two get to know each other, the layers are peeled back and they begin sharing tidbits no one else knows. The arcade date was one of the cutest movie montages I’ve seen in awhile. It really helped that Lawrence and Feldman had such natural chemistry.

This type of humor usually isn’t my cup of tea, but even I couldn’t hold back my laughter. All the jokes landed thanks to a well executed script. Some of the scenarios were also over the top and while that would usually bug me, it did the opposite here.

I walked into No Hard Feelings thinking it’d be an average at best raunchy comedy. What I got instead was a story that wasn’t afraid to go deep when it needed to while perfectly balancing the laughs. I’m glad I gave it a chance!

Rating: ♥️♥️♥️