Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Clifton Johnson Russell's films have always teetered between eccentricity and storytelling, but the balance was off here. There's a compelling protagonist and plot, but somehow we're spending all our time on random conversations with quirky supporting characters. The humor and soundtrack say Russell, but the flow is missing. Lawrence (and the cast) almost make it work...almost. But I never really managed to care. That's not about the substance; that's about the storytelling.

Michael Ledo This is a film inspired by the life of Joy Mangano (Jennifer Lawrence). It is narrated by her grandmother (Diane Ladd) who always had high hopes for her. Joy had dreams and was very creative, but life happened. Like the cicada she reads about, her life took a 17 year hiatus. Her younger self gives Joy an epiphany in a dream. She was going to create. With the help of her family/friends/extended family/near family, for better or worse, she embarked on manufacturing and making the miracle mop and all the trials and tribulations to get it to market.The success of her career is told as an addendum. An academy award winning cast took a simple life story and made it exciting...as well as the added Hollywood dramatization.Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Spoiler: Jennifer Lawrence and Bradly Cooper do not play lovers in this film.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Joy" (2015)Director David O. Russell pays his dues to actress Jennifer Lawrence in an actress leading screen story involving a young woman in her early 20s encountering the harsh world of business affairs from Massachusetts to Texas, USA before becoming a company owner eventually.Jennifer Lawrence spoiled by an early Academy Award for Best Actress in her role as Tiffany in "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012) plays with her self-reflected stardom, especially on the U.S. domestic market, in a X-mas 2015 releasing family drama comedy genre mix. The actress' three year in a row collaborating director of trust puts the actress in situation of struggle with surrounding family members as actress Virgina Madsen, giving the non-stop soap-opera indulging mother Terry, Robert De Niro, as new-love finding grandpa Rudy, meeting charming scenes with actress Isabella Rossellini. The ex-husband, performed by Edgar Ramírez a down-on-discipline musician, creating two children with Joy, who becomes over-powered by daily decision-making before finding her job calling at an local television broadcaster, meeting an all-to-fair playing character of Neil, portrayed by long-time collaborating acting colleague Bradley Cooper. The ensemble cast pushes through fully-owned picture by actress Jennifer Lawrence, who digs deeper into humorist sides with selling floor-cleaning sweeping mobs on a supermarket parking lot, shooting a shotgun in factory back-lots and fighting back on blueprint stealing competitors to come out as victor in unless diverting motion picture entertainment with nothing really to complain on.Nevertheless director David O. Russel keeps Jennifer Lawrence pampered in safe precaution acting beats, not letting his darling actress explore new grounds, blocking the character of Joy at no time for a real danger climatic confrontation; a circumstance that director Darren Aronofsky used for himself in the in-balanced received art-house film "mother!" (2017) due to a catastrophically-prepared female lead that the presumption becomes evident that Director Gary Ross has been Jennifer Lawrence only benefactor through years of a young acting career in casting her as Everdeen Katniss in the world-changing smash hit of 2012 "The Hunger Games".© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

cargo-59815 What the f is wrong with you guys? This is a MOVIE. Movies and CHARACTERS are supposed to be PORTRAYALS of real incidents and people. And the REASON why us-- the real people-- go to the movies is because the people who make these movies make real life look better, MORE dramatic, more interesting, more cinematic! If we wanted pure realism, we would LIVE among these troubled and argumentative characters, live the desperate lives of the main characters with no happy ending in sight! But of course nobody wants that. We go to the movies to see realistic situations LIFTED from real life to be tweaked so that real life could seem tolerable. All the actors did a great job! Even De Niro and Rosellini were convincingly so annoying. It may not be an extraordinary plot, but the pacing and the continuity was great. It's not supposed to be a heavy drama, people, even though the lead character went through a wringer in her life, nor is it supposed to be a comedy either. It's a well-balanced storytelling of life. Jeez...