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A New Leaf Reviews
It’s goofy and bleak and perfect.
In a movie full of darkness, Elaine May is a pure light giving just enough to change Henry from pitch dark to just a slight amount of gray. Enough to care for her and enough to make us believe it.
A New Leaf comingles 1930s screwball, 1940s Preston Sturges, and 1950s Ealing comedies to uneven but sometimes sublime results.
The picture as it now stands is very funny indeed, but more charming than uproarious, and quite surprisingly romantic.
Maybe you can't even remember the last time you saw a purely lovable movie. A New Leaf, Elaine May's airy romantic comedy about a penniless bon vivant's pursuit of a gentle but very wealthy frump, will refresh your memory.
A New Leaf is one of the funniest and most tender films I have ever seen.
Elaine May underplays Henrietta and steals every scene; hers is a fresh new screen talent. She directed and scripted the picture as well.
[Elaine May] has written, directed and is costarred in [A New Leaf]. In it, she displays a genius tor wry and quietly zany comedy that marks her as a new force in the film field.
A New Leaf is continuously enjoyable and frequently brilliant.
An absolute joy.
Someday, perhaps. Miss May's real film will be shown but, until then, even if it is only part of what she intended, A New Leaf is a charming comedy, the best in a long, long time.
The plot, based on a short story by Jack Ritchie, is hardly new, and Miss May's handling of it falls short of brilliance. But the film does have many genuinely funny moments -- derived partly from her performance, which is admirably low-key.
A fresh collection of gags built on a May trademark which is the ability to see the comic aspect of relatively routine engagements.
The stars are sublimely ridiculous. Miss May herself, making her first film as writer, director and performer, has brought to the screen a brand of humor that is wickedly observant, a shade demonic and altogether fresh.
There is a sense of unevenness in this otherwise funny film. But the verbal exchanges as well as the merry looks, askance and otherwise, which these two trade with one another make it hilarious much of the time.
It is a very funny, witty gray comedy and it's a wonderful showcase for [May's] special talents and those of Matthau.
New Leaf achieves the nutty and improbable grandeur of the best movie comedies of the past. Indeed Elaine May carries us off into this crazy world of her own invention in a way that I'd come to think simply wasn't possible any more.
It's a sporadically funny old-hat comedy with a plot that amounts to a glorified cliché.
It's a rare and wonderful blend of the sort of erudite belly laughs that could be elicited only Miss May and Walter Matthau.
[A New Leaf] is a certain remedy for the glooms which currently afflict us. It is a very funny movie for most of the way.