A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.
Baumbach’s most accessible, crowd-pleasing feature to date.
Noah Bamubach’s While We’re Young is the best Woody Allen film of 2015. A fast, funny, smart take on generational jealousy, with Ben Stiller and Adam Driver on great form.
This is Baumbach’s broadest comedy to date and some of its sillier tangents don’t always hit, but when fully firing, its barbed one-liners are often spectacular.
A too-tidy conclusion apart, Baumbach’s smart urban satire on aspiration and generational interplay hits all its marks.
A very sad and very funny film.
Ben Stiller fights middle age with wry humour.
Audiences of either age group may wince to see their own tastes and foibles and attitudes up on screen, but they don't get to sneer at members of the other one.
A very funny film but not perfect.
A painfully well observed portrait of growing old.
Director Noah Baumbach returns older, wiser and funnier with this insightful comedy of midlife manners and meltdown.
Baumbach has made an amusing, richly textured film about generational conflict that’s wise enough to understand that there’s no point trying to suppress or deny youth its moment. Time will do that far more effectively.
A lot to digest in a single viewing, but feels unmistakably like another vital work from an ever-maturing filmmaker.
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