After taking time out to have a kid last year, Jennifer Lawrence is back on the big screen. We’ve missed her, but though I adored huge chunks of No Hard Feelings, I fear it’s doomed – it feels like a cross between Licorice Pizza, The Worst Person in the World, a slap-dash Eighties gross-out comedy and Parasite. Which is a combo no one asked for.
Lawrence is 32-year-old Maddie, an embittered Long Islander, who’s so desperate for money that she agrees to “date”, i.e. deflower, Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman). He is the depressed, geeky, Princeton-bound 19-year-old son of a rich couple played by Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti.
