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While We're Young

2014

Noah Baumbach

Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Driver ...

5.8

6,448

Comedy. Drama An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple. Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia Srebnick (Naomi Watts), happily married middle-aged members of New York's creative class. After trying and failing to start a family, they both begin to realize that something is missing from their lives. Enter Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), a free-spirited ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A consistently funny, acutely observed look at a couple dragging their feet into middle age. (...) Witty, articulate"	POS
United States	Joe Neumaier New York Daily News	"Noah Baumbach’s sensational satirical drama While We’re Young is, finally, a movie for grownups to run out and see. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"The most hilarious Woody Allen film in years is directed by Noah Baumbach"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"This delicious satire about aging hipsters and their discontents is everything we've come to expect from the best of Noah Baumbach, as well as several things more"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A wickedly funny dark comedy (...) it's a rare treat in 2015 to see a film with its roots in the great, dialogue-driven character studies of the 1970s. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Like peak Woody Allen (...) Sparkling age-anxiety comedy (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"An erratic and neurotic mid-life comedy-drama. (...) mostly engaging but only fitfully inspired serio-comedy"	NEU
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"A precise, amusing and deeply felt missive from the most anxious depths of mid- adulthood in “While We’re Young" (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Brilliant comedy (...) stingingly funny (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Catherine Shoard The Guardian	"It's the Noah Baumbach’s most accessible and amusing work (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Another inconsequential Noah Baumbach parody of so-called "normal" people trying to function in a fractional society changing too rapidly to keep up with (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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