Despite talking to director Lynn Shelton before her man-on-man comedy Humpday opened at SIFF, I still haven’t seen it. But Stephen Holden of the New York Times saw it and, man, must Shelton be happy. Here’s the intro to his review:

"To guys everywhere: Humpday has your number. With X-ray vision, this serious indie comedy, written and directed by Lynn Shelton, sees through its male characters’ macho pretensions to contemplate the underlying forces hard-wired into men’s psyches in a homophobic culture. Think of it as a Judd Apatow or Kevin Smith buddy film turned inside out.

It is all the more remarkable for having been conceived by an empathetic woman with no apparent ax to grind and a sensibility tuned to the minutiae of straight-male bonding rituals. Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but some observant Venusians understand the brute fundamentals of Martian psychology."

Guess I’ll have to finally check the damn thing out (eyebrow still dubiously raised, for some reason) when it opens tomorrow…