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Nicole Holofcener's 'You Hurt My Feelings' gets to the messy bottom of how we tell loved ones white lies to protect them from little harsh truths.

A nugget of truth threatens to wreck a marriage in Nicole Holofcener's sweet, unfussy 'You Hurt My Feelings.'

Writer/Director Nicole Holofcener's storytelling style involves small snippets of scenes between characters -- slices of life that might involve a pair of sisters volunteering for a church clothing giveaway; a woman meeting her mother at an old diner they used to frequent; a married couple sharing a quick dinner -- that, individually, might seem low-key to the point of irrelevance. But collectively, these exquisitely rendered moments begin to form a much greater whole, creating a sense of the world for her characters that somehow expands far beyond what we actually see of them.

Peter Travers reviews "You Hurt My Feelings," starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

"You Hurt My Feelings" asks a small question: Is there any good reason not to tell white lies?