TOO EARNEST PERHAPS to qualify as a sex comedy and not quite romantic enough to count as a romantic comedy, No Hard Feelings is a perfect example of how the best kind of onscreen chemistry is fundamentally unquantifiable. The premise is simple, raunchy, maybe even transgressive for our oh-so-prudish times: Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie Barker, a 32-year-old Montauk bartender and Uber driver who accepts a paid gig to have sex with Percy Becker (Andrew Barth Feldman), the painfully shy Princeton-bound 19-year-old son of a wealthy couple who want him to come out of his shell and gain confidence before heading off to college. A Montauk native, Maddie can't stand the rich, gentrifying jagoffs who spend only part of the year in her hometown, buying up property and pushing locals out of the area. But she takes the job because there's a Buick Regal at the end of it, and her car was just repossessed ahead of the busy (and lucrative) summer season. Besides, as one of Maddie's friends puts it, "These people use us. So why don't we use them?"
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Surviving Sweating Season.
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Hip-hop Buddy Comedy
An uneven album as astounding as it is annoying.
The Bear Trap
A season that just can't move forward-like its protagonist.
Living for the Stage
The spotlight for Colman Domingo is moving, but it should shine more on his co-stars.
Glen Powell's Charm Offensive Is Working
He may never transcend Cruise or McConaughey’s level of stardom, but he gets how to play the long game.
Lev Grossman Takes His Time
The best-selling author of The Magicians trilogy is back with his first book for adults in ten years, The Bright Sword. All it took to finish was a transpacific move.
Going Derry Free
Saoirse-Monica Jackson on life after Derry Girls and her role in a new Netflix comedy series.
Here Comes Din Tai Fung, Finally
Some famous soup dumplings arrive on Broadway.
THE BEST RESTAURANTS OF 2024-SO FAR
SIX MONTHS INTO THE YEAR, Some stocktaking is in order. Our restaurant critic and \"Underground Gourmet\" columnist have each gone back through their Notes apps and blurry, surreptitiously snapped reference photos to see how the city's newest restaurants are shaping up. These are the eight spots they've loved most up to now.
