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‘While We’re Young’ Review: Young People Suck

Philip Brown — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:00:19 +0000

Noah Baumbach has been a master of caustic comedy since his debut ‘Kicking and Screaming’. (No, not the one with Will Ferrell. The other one.) He’s a man for whom laughter always comes with a bitter sting of truth and deep discomfort. That’s why it was so surprising when he made the sincere and even...

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‘The Humbling’ Review: A Very Pacino Meltdown

Philip Brown — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:00:38 +0000

In some ways, ‘The Humbling’ plays like a darker sibling to recent Oscar nominee ‘Birdman’. Both films deal with over-the-hill actors experiencing mental breakdowns mid-production on a play, both favor an elastic sense of reality and delusion, and both feature strikingly similar sequences. Those resemblances likely explain why ‘The Humbling’ was essentially shelved and ignored...

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TIFF Journal: ‘While We’re Young’

Philip Brown — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:00:42 +0000

Middle-aged Noah Baumbach just had his greatest success with ‘Frances Ha‘, which dealt with the plight of the twenty-something with warmth, compassion and good humor. Now he’s made a move that feels like artistic venting after that experience. ‘While We’re Young’ is about how worthless all those twenty-something kids are, and it’s pretty damn priceless....

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