Synopsis
The neurological inner workings of romantic relationships between men and women are studied for science.
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Cast
- Whitney CummingsJulia
- Toby KebbellKevin
- Beanie FeldsteinAbby
- Cecily StrongZoe
- Sofía VergaraLisa
- Deon ColeSteven
- Blake GriffinGreg
- Lucy PunchLexi
- James MarsdenAdam
- Neal BrennanMarco
Recommendations
- 85
TheWrap
Cummings may have taken the easy way out here and there, but she largely delivers a film that kinda sorta makes you think, which isn’t a characteristic the genre is known for. Throughout, your feel-good chemicals will be flowing. - 50
The New York Times
With tender performances and dubious conclusions, this story is best appreciated as an explanation for why people seek out the false comfort of gendered pseudoscience. But by fitting characters into formulas, The Female Brain fails to observe the flexibility of human experience. - 50
RogerEbert.com
Both in front of and behind the camera, Whitney Cummings tries to breathe new life into the hackneyed, men-are-like-this, women-are-like-this style of romantic comedy with The Female Brain. The results are frustratingly hit-and-miss. - 42
IndieWire
The formulaic approach to presenting each story — which ostensibly track different people Julia herself has studied, though she never interacts with them — is predictable, static, and wholly clinical. - 40
Los Angeles Times
With such a fractured narrative, it's difficult to get into a groove with these short, shallow and over-simplified stories. - 40
Village Voice
Despite its strong cast (including Sofia Vergara, Cecily Strong, and James Marsden), The Female Brain has trouble making its characters more than one-dimensional. - 38
Movie Nation
Cummings, working from a Louann Brizendine book, has rendered romance clinical and forgotten to drop more sugar water in the Petri dish. She was too busy clinging to that “explain the brain” conceit to notice. The movie’s just not that damned funny. - 38
Slant Magazine
The Female Brain never seems quite sure whether it wants to probe the depths of its title subject or just make us laugh. And given the shallowness of its quasi-scientific blather and the tepidness of its comedy, it ultimately does neither.
