The Little Hours
An American comedy in the middle age that follows the escape of a slave from his master, but his escape landed him in the hands of some emotional nuns who may tempt him more.
4 December 1966, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
26 June 1970, Joliet, Illinois, USA
31 March 1980, New Jersey, USA
30 March 1957, New York City, New York, USA
24 May 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
September 11, 2017
Plaza's not merely bored and making a joke of the outbursts; she's angry and raw and raunchy. There's a darkness to her stare that's a challenge. She's got a bit of the old school femme fatale in her, but she's arrived at the wrong time.
September 01, 2017
If you're a fan of HBO's Veep or Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you'll probably appreciate this curious little gem.
July 14, 2017
No matter how obvious the set-up - what if men and women of the cloth were ... rude and sexy??? - the cast gives every scene just enough of a deadpan spin to sell it, at least for the first hour.
August 23, 2017
Avoiding period language, the movie genially embraces the all-too-human pursuit of pleasure.
July 13, 2017
Medieval purists: prepare to cringe.
July 20, 2017
Whether or not Baena does right by Boccaccio, he definitely does right by Aubrey Plaza, his girlfriend and indie comedy's reigning queen of mean.
July 12, 2017
The strategy works surprisingly well. I liked a lot of writer-director Jeff Baena's picture; it may be a one-joke movie, but I've seen comedies recently that would've killed for that many.
July 13, 2017
True, The Little Hours is essentially a one-joke comedy - but most of the jokes under the umbrellas of that one joke are pretty damn, I mean darn, funny.
September 05, 2017
The Little Hours [is] a movie that seems to have been made entirely by and for Brooklyn hipsters.
August 21, 2017
The Little Hours finds comedy in mundanity; its jokes, thankfully, make up for its unoriginality.
July 21, 2017
The momentum peters out by the end, but by then its job is already done. "The Little Hours" is good for some big laughs.
August 29, 2017
This little film is a bagatelle, and a juicy little one. Pray for it.
