“a terrifically funny and smart quarterlife-crisis comedy with great dialogue riffs and a nice line in insouciant gloom.” – ★★★★ The Guardian
“Left-field pleasure of the week: Harry Michell’s very funny yet also gloomy neo-Withnail comedy Chubby Funny” – Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw on Twitter
“he’ll make you cringe and concur in equal measure” – ★★★★ Time Out
“a potent mixture of mirth and melancholy… a self-assured and pleasingly down-to-earth debut” – ★★★★ Total Film
“Michell makes a name for himself directing and starring in a fine London comedy” – ‘This week’s best films in the UK’ (30 June), The Guardian
“Authenticity triumphs over budget with this charming, naturalistic London comedy, with a hero… who’s refreshingly atypical and endearingly unheroic. ” – ‘This week’s best films in the UK’ (7 July), The Guardian
“a spiritual successor to Withnail and I… Michell does for millennials in London what Noah Baumbach did for millennials in Manhattan… One of the comedies of the year” – ★★★★★ VultureHound
“best Britflick comedy of the summer” – ★★★★ Filmuforia
“sweet and touching” – ★★★★ Movie Marker
“an amazingly mature filmmaking debut, a contemporary comedy that’s deceptively deep” – ★★★★ Dog and Wolf
“Effortlessly straddling the line between laugh-out loud funny and staggeringly poignant… Earnest, sincere, hilarious… a film that offers as big a heart as it does so many laughs.” – OnScreen
“has proper, genuine laugh-out-loud moments but also isn’t afraid to get into the dark truths of that fight against your own uncertainties.” – ★★★★ Critical Popcorn