An actor craving to return to Los Angeles and her theatre director husband who loves their life in New York find themselves in the midst of a messy divorce after a temporary separation exposes the fundamental truths of their marriage.
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Baumbach has gifted us with not a bleak and miserable anti-marriage tirade but a warm and complex drama about simply being alive - about embracing life in all its shades.| Read in full: Marriage Story film review We Love Cinema
Noah Baumbach reminds us that breaking up is hard to do in this finely judged relationship retrospective.The Guardian
Gone is archness and intellectualism that threatened [Baumbach's] previous work as writer/director, replaced with a tenderness and emotional truthfulness so generous and empathetic that he’s finally earned contention as one of the greatest American filmmakers of his generation.Little White Lies
The brilliance of the movie lies in how it starts from a familiar place, then sneaks into transcendence.IndieWire
Audiences might expect a mercilessly bleak view of married life, but Baumbach’s go-to mode is never despair, even when Marriage Story is desperately sad.Sight & Sound
Marriage Story is more than just a career high for writer-director Noah Baumbach; it’s a peerless showcase for its stars, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, who turn this tale of a contentious divorce into a Kramer vs. Kramer for the 21st century.Rolling Stone
In his fourth feature film, writer-director Louis Garrel explores with wit and tenderness the risk and worth of second chances
A mountain trek intertwines with a road-building project, granting incisive, if underpowered, insight into a much underseen world
With none of the saving graces of Tetris, Air, or Barbie, this ambition-free look at the Beanie Baby craze is pure mediocrity
Celine Deveaux's French-Portuguese debut can be too quirky for its own good, but a fantastically written lead character keeps it afloat
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
