Movie review: Jennifer Lawrence in the raunchy teen comedy ‘No Hard Feelings’

In a saner world, we would have already had a dozen Jennifer Lawrence comedies. When aliens arrive they will surely go directly to IMDB to survey her filmography and wonder why one of Hollywood’s funniest and most naturally charismatic stars spent the first decade of her career in dystopias, action movies and whatever it is you call “Mother!” As if to make up for lost time, Lawrence has in “No Hard Feelings” made the kind of R-rated teen comedy that has usually launched young actors. This image released by Sony Pictures shows Andrew Barth Feldman, left, and Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from “No Hard Feelings.” And while the role forces Lawrence into raunchy situations that could easily be said to be beneath her, “No Hard Feelings” gives her plenty of room to showcase her talent at upending traditional ideas of Hollywood glamour. Yet while “No Hard Feelings” finally gives Lawrence a platform for some of the slapstick humor she’s so good at, it also feels like she’s been inserted into the framework of a quite male coming-of-age rom-com/fantasy. Incredulous, Maddie exclaims: “Doesn’t anyone f—- anymore?” “No Hard Feelings,” a Sony Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for sexual content, language, some graphic nudity and brief drug use.