Metacritic Movie Ratings
Greenberg Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 100

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  The wonder of the film is how good it makes us feel. Greenberg scintillates with intelligence, razor's-edge humor and austere empathy for its struggling lovers.

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• 90

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  It is the funniest and saddest movie Mr. Baumbach has made so far, and also the riskiest.

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• 88

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Powerfully honest, insightful and poignant.

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• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  I have a weakness for actresses like Greta Gerwig. She looks reasonable and approachable.

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• 83

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  Baumbach's movies are addictive dispatches from a genteel jungle of white privilege, where highly educated people behave badly. I can't take my eyes off the exotic wildlife.

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• 70

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  As a study of stasis and of people conscious of not living the lives they had imagined for themselves, the picture offers a bracing undertow of seriousness beneath the deceptively casual, dramatically offhand surface.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  While winning no points for originality, Baumbach and his co-conspirator in the script, Jennifer Jason Leigh -- have created an all-too-convincing portrait of a 40-year-old man in emotional freefall.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey

  Any comic relief it affords comes with such an undertow of repressed emotions and displaced anger that it all starts to feel more depressing than dramatic.

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