Review of While We're Young

"At the same age of Josh in the movie, Baumbach's self-reflexive instinct posits the story mostly from a flustered Josh's viewpoint, and Stiller is mildly exasperating for unable to act more sympathetic as the cynosure here, while the narrative around Watts' Cornelia, unfortunately still being predominantly defined by her womb (they would be fantastic parents!) and the two men in her life (her father and her husband, plus what is her occupation anyway?), is more amorphous, the same can be applied to Seyfried's Darby, under the shadow of Jimmy's faux-bonhomie and faux-naïf facade, she becomes a mere cipher and introduced as someone who makes ice cream, whereas Driver naturalistically codes Jimmy's unpretentious effusion with a shady self-consciousness might be bypassed by more gullible viewers."

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