Review of While We're Young

A bit pretentious at times, but clever and fantastically acted- While We're Young may not be the home run the film thinks it is, but is certainly a well illustrated period piece and a wonderful social satire. Ben Stiller and Adam Driver are fantastic, truly delving into their characters to likes I haven't seen them before. The whole cast itself is also quite impressive, with Naomi Watts also providing quite a notable performance. The film is surprisingly entertaining, and paced fairly well, but at times can feel like two different films by its end. To sum it up, the film starts and ends in very different spot, and though it is important to see character growth and plot progression in films, it just feels a bit odd how different the film feels by its conclusion- and you can't help but feel Bumbach didn't entirely realize what to do to wrap it up. Besides that fact, and it's somewhat pretentious nature, While We're Young is written very well in terms of dialogue and social satire, and proves to be a very revealing and realistic look into the world it wants to provide a glimpse into. In the end, While We're Young is not great, but a well-enough executed piece from Bumbach that is certainly memorable, unique, and luckily very entertaining. My Rating: 8.5/10