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While Were Young
A (INDIA)
2015
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Positive Reviews
137
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.8
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3.8
Baumbach has gone softer than usual, not probing as deeply into his slow to mature characters.
Av Club
4.5
But Baumbach handles this potentially groan worthy material with verbal and visual wit, the effervescent snappiness thats become his signature.
Av Club
4.0
Noah Baumbach has a history of making occasionally hilarious but notably divisive movies.
We Got This Covered
3.5
The result isnt entirely riotous a mid movie sequence involving ayahuasca falls oddly flat yet Baumbach weaves in plenty of droll observations about t ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
The result isnt entirely riotous a mid movie sequence involving ayahuasca falls oddly flat yet Baumbach weaves in plenty of droll observations about t ..
Austin Chronicle
4.0
If this is Baumbachs commercial breakthrough, he will have made it several steps up that staircase with nothing lost.
Time Out
4.0
Cornelia is a good sport about everything, even joining Darby at her energetic hip hop exercise class.Naomi Watts has a real talent for physical comed ..
Screen Daily
3.5
Baumbach weaves in elements of playful but pointed social satire well enough, without making it all seem too heavy.The casting is spot on.
ETimes (TOI)
4.5
It certainly doesnt hurt that the director has compiled one of his best casts.
Collider
3.5
That made him too on the nose as Baumbachs malcontent Greenberg and too much of a stretch as a lovable little man with big dreams in his own The Secre ..
Vulture
4.0
Baumbach draws a lot of humor from the greener grass were always eyeing.
Paste Magazine
3.8
It feels like a totally different movie as it reaches its very public climax, and an inferior one.
Rogerebert
4.0
If theres anything that Baumbachs recent output is screaming in filmmaking ballrooms its a borrowed corporate slogan: just do it.
IGN
4.0
But this is still intellectually supercharged entertainment, with a laugh line per minute count it would be grouchy to undersell.
Telegraph
2.5
Its a shame the second thread was necessary because the quieter comedy beats and emotional sequences between Stiller and Watts were expertly done.
The Young Folks
4.0
But whats more appealing about While Were Young is that it delivers far more than it promises.
Cinema Blend
5.0
When Baumbach is on, hes really on, and the brilliant While Were Young contains the same self lacerating humor as his Greenberg, Margot at the Wedding ..
Ny Daily News
4.0
Its one of the funniest films of the year, and will hopefully get the wide release it deserves, with it being the rare smart comedy thats doesnt sacri ..
JoBlo
3.8
Unlike Allen, though, Baumbach rehearses his actors, and the dialogue flow is snappy in a series of glancingly witty riffs on authenticity and generat ..
The Globe And Mail
3.8
OK, maybe that dates me (but hey, King Leonardo cartoons were in reruns for decades).Still, if theres a moral in Noah Baumbachs cuttingly comic and ke ..
Philly
5.0
Darby introduces Cornelia to the delights of hip hop exercise and dancing.
Spirituality And Practice
3.2
Its far too easy a resolution for a picture that elsewhere is so clever and insightful.
One Guys Opinion
3.8
As he proved in Greenberg, Stiller is a wonderful conduit for Baumbachs ideas and pithy, witty dialogue.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.8
10 1 6 / 10 Noah Baumbach is known for making polarizing films, but his last effort, 2013s Frances Ha offered the writer/director a chance to play it ..
Blu Ray
2.5
None of the characters have any kind of inner life, and they only exist in relation to Stillers character.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
For better and for worse, this light comedy finds Noah Baumbach at his most Woody Allen esque; the storytelling is smooth and assured and the one line ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
Yes, both characters have some major, character defining flaws, but Baumbach observes the two men with unexpected sympathy.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.8
The question of what is truly documentary filmmaking may be too inside baseball for mass audiences, but it does raise intriguing questions about artis ..
Usa Today
4.0
Crowe himself has been digging holes for the best part of 10 years now, punching the staff and barely landing a significant part, unless you count Noa ..
The Times
4.0
We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video We are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this video Its a funny thing, the gen ..
The Times
4.0
As friendship blossoms between the two couples, Baumbach uses the situation to say something about both generations, poking fun at hipsters while maki ..
Radio Times
4.0
One of the pleasures of an intermittently very funny film is its sly and subtle approach toward the attrition between generations.
Independent
3.5
The newest film by writer director Noah Baumbach has his usual strengths like sharp urban insights and brainy comedy.But it also has a visual style th ..
Cs Monitor
4.5
Baumbach withholds judgment, delivering no easy resolution, which adds to the films way cool style.
Film Journal
4.0
It still has an edge, but its tempered with experience. Like his frequent collaborator Wes Anderson, Baumbach seems to be reaping the rewards of havin ..
The Guardian
5.0
Baumbach has produced another excruciatingly pleasurable and wince inducing study in insecurity.
The Guardian
5.0
But its churlish to pick holes in what is an almost perfect 90 minute hit of confident and inspired comedic commentary.
The Guardian
4.0
Its sad and its funny, which is an apt description of this part of the film.Baumbach and Stiller make a formidable team when it comes to skirting the ..
Az Central
4.0
The Brooklyn blow ins do as they want, appropriating songs, devices and ideas without worrying about authenticity.
Smh
4.0
More than most, the American director Noah Baumbach is obsessed with ages and stages.
Smh
4.5
Has a few missteps perhaps part of its quality that are hard to brush aside. Even so, it is a great film the first such of 2015.
Mountain X
3.5
Neither Stiller nor Grodin slip into their usual shtick, and the script offers complex moments to all its major characters even Darby, who has the lea ..
Npr
5.0
Noah Baumbachs brisk new comedy While Were Young is very funny and sublimely morbid about topics invisible to modern movie humor.
Star Tribune
4.0
All the songs on Cyndi Laupers debut album that arent Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.Bingo.
Salon
4.0
This is an entertainingly garrulous film for those who find words much more interesting than action.
Flim List
4.5
That it manages to do this whilst wholeheartedly embracing this culture is further proof that this may be Baumbachs most empathetic movie to date, as ..
Film Inquiry
4.0
Funny, fizzy but with brainfood to chew on Noah Baumbachs seventh feature film as a writer director is far more entertaining than any film prefaced by ..
Empire
2.0
What does work is Baumbachs casting: the talented ensemble is far better than the superficial material theyre working with.
Susang Ranger
2.5
Theres something wonderfully reassuring about age, and a movie this empty makes me glad Ill never see 40 again.
Observer
4.0
The quiet genius of WHILE WERE YOUNG is how it works on so many different levels.
Common Sense Media
2.5
While Were Young is one step forward and two steps back for writer director Noah Baumbach, whose movies are never less than intelligent but, at their ..
Sf Gate
4.0
Noah Baumbachs latest directorial venture is a rollicking ride, from start to finish.
Book My Show
4.0
Such is one of the rare benefits of age: maybe you can start, at last, to tell the difference between a life style and a life.
New Yorker
2.5
While Were Young mines that probing mise en scene for explicit commentary, but the belabored screwball comedy that results lacks the verisimilitude an ..
Slant Magazine
4.5
Jamie also doesnt Facebook, watches VHS tapes of old shows, and doesnt believe in Googling instantly for trivia.
The New Indian Express
4.4
Does it come as any surprise that all of the above transpires in Brooklyn
Washington Post
3.5
But first its important to acknowledge the acuity of Mr. Baumbachs insight and his overall generosity of spirit.
The New York Times
4.0
The film has its intellectual airs but it delivers witty one liners, belly laughs and physical comedy.
Express
3.8
This is the comic perspective justifiable paranoia, creative class division providing the material for writer director Noah Baumbachs zesty tale of tw ..
Chicago Tribune
3.8
Its still entertaining but with an edge of resentment, even finger wagging, that curdles the acerbic fun.
Boston Globe
3.2
Laura Clifford Robin Clifford Josh (Ben Stiller) is middle aged and has been working on his sophomore documentary for ten years, so when Jamie (Adam D ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Baumbach (Frances Ha) is brilliant at balancing genuine affection for these characters and their foibles with just the right amount of exasperation, a ..
Flickfilosopher
4.0
There is enough going on for us to forgive Baumbach that lapse.Decorated with many delicious handheld shots in busy New York, the picture manages the ..
The Irish Times
4.0
Stillers role is tailor made and Watts delivers yet another impressive performancewith a lightness of touch thats rare in comedies these daysas a woma ..
Blogs Indie Wire
4.2
But that wider appeal doesnt diminish the bite or insight of While Were Young, a deliciously entertaining, funny and honest look at getting old, being ..
Blogs Indie Wire
3.1
Wisdom may come with age but its accompanied by a powerful sense of denial.
ReelViews
2.5
The appealing cast will attract a measure of major market specialized audience attention, but the film is neither sufficiently funny nor emotionally i ..
Hollywood Reporter
4.0
But its highly enjoyable, much more openly a comedy than his previous work.Funnily enough, what you have to call it is properly grown up film making.
Standard
4.0
This is advertised as a comedy, but I didnt see much funny in it.
Tony Medley
2.2
Everything about the movie feels stunted.The jokes are half hearted and the plot never arrives.
Coles Mithey
4.0
But, because this is Baumbach, inevitably mixed with the geniality in this tale of two couples, what they want from life and from each other, are more ..
Los Angeles Times
3.2
At about the two thirds mark, writer director Noah Baumbach steers his film down a less satisfying path, more plot driven and less existential than th ..
Detroit News
3.5
Baumbachs script crackles with life, delivered by actors just right for their roles.
Variety
3.8
At first, Baumbach keeps the culture clash social satire light, if often insightful.
Groucho Reviews
3.8
Throwback culture is real, and Baumbachs attentiveness to it immediately gives this film credibility in the generational interweave at its core.
Consequence Of Sound
4.4
This hypocritical combination of envy and antipathy can make for awkward comedy exactly the sort Noah Baumbach prefers.
Nj
3.5
While Were Young proves entertaining enough, but its many small observations dont add up to anything bigger.
Movie Habit
2.0
Suffice it to say that Baumbach doesnt really stray from the tired and trusted here either, but maybe Ive just seen this particular plot too many time ..
Hey U Guys
4.4
And getting deadpan comic master Charles Grodin to come out of semi retirement is a major feat unto itself.
The Star
3.8
Baumbach has more fun struggling with the deeper questions than hes ever had before, and the result is an open hearted, quick witted take on old probl ..
Oregon Live
3.0
Josh blows a lot of smoke about his art, but isnt shown as actually having much passion or flair for it, and its tough to know how to root for someone ..
Digital Spy
4.0
But this is sharp filmmaking, treating serious themes with a beguiling lightness.
Games Radar
3.5
Baumbach even shamelessly lifts the ending from Hannah and Her Sisters.
New York Post
4.0
Baumbach tries to juggle too many themes at one time: the generation gap, the cultural divide between parents and non parents, and the de evolution of ..
The Stranger
3.0
Writer director Noah Baumbach once again taps into a specific point in life with astute observational skill, even if the plot feels oddly forced...
Contact Music
4.5
If Baumbachs film eventually takes a slightly unwelcome turn to lumbering plot heaviness in its final act, it sparkles with more than enough wit and p ..
Ar Kansas Online
3.0
This time out, Baumbach seems to be throwing together bits from different films: the dyspepsia of Greenberg, the cool kid posing of Frances Ha, the an ..
Film Racket
2.5
I dont think you can claim While Were Young is a dry comedy about the fact that well never quite have it all figured out.
Larsen On Film
3.8
Image: Jon Pack / A24 In our culture of cool, we worship the new, the fresh, and (above all) the young.So balancing the practicalities of aging with w ..
Christianity Today
3.5
Not that it ever has and Baumbach knows it.His script is sharply etched, full of wit that never succumbs to jokiness.
Hollywood And Fine
4.0
Will youth triumph over the seasoning of age, or will experience trump innocence
The Arts Desk
3.5
Noah Baumbachs rueful comedy turns on a special kind of generation gap.
Wsj
4.2
Its great stuff, fortified by a cast thats first rate from top to bottom.
Patriot Ledger
3.5
The importance of ageing gracefully is examined with both humour and pain in the sharply observed While Were Young, a satire thats more brutally hones ..
Scmp
4.5
If theres anything that Baumbachs recent output is screaming in filmmaking ballrooms its a borrowed corporate slogan: just do it.
Ign
3.5
Its far from perfect but it will leave you with a lot more to reflect upon.
The Film Pie
3.5
What follows, in writer director Noah Baumbachs latest, is a comedy of cross generational exchange thats smart, lively, and beautifully observeduntil ..
The Dissolve
1.0
Where Grodin had the merciless selfishness to make great art and Driver has the ethical slipperiness to make great entertainment, Stiller is saddled w ..
Sandiego Reader
4.5
But its mostly magnificent, an unlikely but garden fresh mishmash of metacommentary and populist comedy filmmaking with a career best performance from ..
Cinemix Tape
3.0
What immediately bothered me about Baumbachs latest is the way this younger generation is depicted.
ComingSoon
3.0
In terms of the effectiveness of its scare tactics and the precision of the one liners, While Were Young is uncut Baumbach.
Metro New York
4.5
Theres a certain breezy obviousness to much of the humor: its like a broad, sitcom expansion of a Moral Tale or a Comedies and Proverbs episode that B ..
Film Comment
4.5
The bite of Baumbachs wit has always been firmly grounded in the absurdity of the familiar; if his characters find themselves stuck in cliched scenari ..
Film Comment
3.5
Brooklyn oriented social satire has already worn quite thin... and While Were Young is in danger of thinning out as well. But the Baumbach touch... go ..
Sbs
4.0
While Were Young is filled with sharp little touches like that; its a very funny movie, and a beautifully cast one (in addition to the aforementioned ..
Flavor Wire
4.0
This is Baumbachs broadest comedy to date and some of its sillier tangents dont always hit, but when fully firing, its barbed one liners are often spe ..
The Skinny
3.5
Whats most fascinating about Noah Baumbachs take on modern New York is the inverse correlation between trendiness and technology.
Under The Radar Mag
4.4
But the feeling of wanting to do everything yet doing nothing in particular seems to have taken hold.
Movie Mezzanine
5.0
Might have been a simple takedown of the Millennial generation you know: These damn kids today. But the movie is more complex than that.
reason
3.5
While Were Young isnt Noah Baumbachs greatest film. Its more like a collection of his greatest hits.
Seven Day Svt
3.0
Its quick cuts make it brisk and breezy.Pretension doesnt have time to be tiresome.
Tony Mack
3.0
Its far more entertaining, but not as cohesive, but the entertaining side makes it a better watch than a strong plot does.
Fat Guys At The Movies
4.0
Whether this signals a softening of Baumbachs previously acerbic worldview remains to be seen; though initial reactions to his next film, Mistress Ame ..
Bfi
4.4
The wonderful thing about While Were Young and the relationship that develops between Josh and Cornelia and Jamie and Darby is that its less about res ..
Denver Post
5.0
Funny and wise, its got to be a front runner for best comedy of the year.
Sky
3.0
Once he has had his fun showing Stiller buying an undesized trilby and pulling a muscle riding a bicycle through Brooklyn, or Watts taking hip hop dan ..
New States Man
3.5
But the first two thirds of the movie percolate and ping with jokes and jabs and even insights that are very, very satisfying.
New City Film
3.0
Suffice it to say, its funny enough that you might suspect the whole film is something of a shaggy dog story deliberately leading to that oblique visu ..
Winnipeg Free Press
4.0
He allows short bursts of impeccable, comedic filmmaking with sharp editing, a masterful attention to pace, and wonderful performances to build slowly ..
Fan The Fire Magazine
4.5
While Were Young is a movie that has to work through some of its characters issues before it can be enjoyed unreservedly.
Trespass Mag
4.0
It is one of the best send ups of Bohemian hipsterdom Ive seen this side of Portlandia.Two words artisanal ice cream.
Toronto Sun
3.5
Their love life spices right up, much like Marlon Brando and Faye Dunaways characters did, by way of Johnny Depps infectious uber romantic character i ..
Theepoch Times
5.0
While Were Young functions as a useful reminder that old age comes for even the hippest of us, but its far more than that.The movie marks an important ..
Fw Weekly
3.5
While Were Young is perhaps s most unpleasant picture to date, and thats a compliment.
Blog Bullz Eye
3.1
Baumbach has a solid grasp of what it feels like to hit one of those transition points in life, where it seems as if you simply dont fit in.
Am Ny
5.0
Either storyline would possibly make an interesting film whether as comedy (as this remains) or drama.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
3.5
At their simplest, each is about finding humour and drama in relationships and friendships.
Impulse Gamer
3.5
Baumbach fashions a wickedly funny dark comedy out of these four characters.
Richard Roeper
3.8
But while its a wonderful take on a classic regret the ennui that is part of realizing one is middle aged While Were Young has problems, too.Theres a ..
Ut Sandiego
3.8
Baumbach isnt interested in generalizing, demonizing, or making a cheap joke at anyones expense, and it is this attention to detail that gives this qu ..
The Film File
3.1
But that doesnt mean theyre not an entertaining population for a movie, and for a while much of this contemporary comedy is great fun until the party ..
Seattle Times
3.0
While Were Young is a mostly enjoyable movie, but what its trying for is wisdom, and thats a quality that Baumbach doesnt earn.
Bbc
4.5
Their foibles are ideal material for Baumbach who uses this fender bender between Gen X and Millennials to tackle something realrapidly shifting ideas ..
Vogue
3.5
A great performance by Ben Stiller makes this an easygoing Sunday afternoon movie, if not one of Baumbachs best pieces of self examination.
Monsters And Critics
3.8
Its remarkably easy to laugh at it, too.John Serba is film critic and entertainment reporter for MLive and The Grand Rapids Press.
M Live
4.5
The pains of ageing, and the chasms that divide generations, are mined with witty precision in this latest comic outing from Noah Baumbach.
Daily Telegraph
3.5
But its not necessary: cunningly directed and well acted, its a wholly rewarding film on its own.
Daily Public
4.0
Youth may be wasted on the young but it does work wonders for the middle aged even if only fleetingly.
Japan Times
3.8
Its a much more satisfying movie when its allowing room for Drivers wonderfully loose portrait of ironic Lionel Richie listening Millennial ism, and a ..
City Weekly
3.5
Like a lot of writer directors with a natural gift for comedy, Noah Baumbach has spent a lot of his filmmaking career trying not to be too funny.
Nashville Scene
2.5
Filmmaker Noah Baumbach has made some terrific movies about characters in crisis, but his latest comedy drama gets lost on its search for creative and ..
Haaretz
4.4
This is a triumphant examination of confusing efforts to figure out what to do with yourself as a human of any age.
Trib
4.5
One of the best scenes in Greenberg found Stillers character attending a house party with a much younger demographic.
Un Cut
3.5
A human comedy of people growing up and growing older, finding out who they are and what they want out of life, and learning that every age and every ..
Neils Entertainment Picks
4.2
The film asks thought provoking questions about modern technology, friendship and even documentaries that will likely cause deep discussions afterward ..
Chris Stuck Mann
4.4
If youth is wasted on the young, middle age is definitely wasted on the middle aged.
Madison Movie
3.2
Is Baumbach saying that hanging onto your ideals deep into middle age even when you do so to your own detriment is a good thing, or a bad thing.Is it ..
The Concourse Deads
4.4
Despite this, True Story proves to be a chilling, horrific story not simply about the monsters that lurk in our midst but about the lies we willingly ..
News Gazette
4.0
In short, this is a richly rewarding and superbly written drama that has something meaningful to say about the ageing process as well as delivering pl ..
Wow 247
2.5
Its a worthwhile field of enquiry, made into a strangely self satisfied film.
The Monthly
4.0
Among other things, Noah Baumbachs very funny While Were Young is a rumination on the Long Tail, the theory that pop culture remains accessible long a ..
Archives Sf Weekly
2.0
Cinemas most vicious, mean spirited denunciation of the millennial generation yet
Stephen Silver Writer Word ..
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