‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Movie Review [Sundance 2023]: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Shines in Low-Key Comedy

Sometimes, even the smallest of emotional stakes in a movie can feel monumental. Writer/director Nicole Holofcener accomplished exactly that with the Sundance Film Festival 2023 dramedy You Hurt My Feelings. Her screenplay keeps its plot to the basics, carrying a straight-forward narrative about a deeply relatable topic.

'You Hurt My Feelings' movie review 3.5 star rating

‘You Hurt My Feelings’ is an examination of small-time marital woes

'You Hurt My Feelings' Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Beth leaning against the bar top looking sad
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Beth | A24

Beth (Veep‘s Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a novelist in New York teaching writing courses on the side. She finally submitted a book that she has been working on for the last couple of years that follows up her somewhat successful memoir. Meanwhile, her husband, Don (Outlander‘s Tobias Menzies) works as a therapist, whose clients stopped respecting him after he couldn’t find a reason to care about their problems anymore.