Jay Kelly

I was young. I wanted something very badly and I was afraid that if I took my eye off it, I wouldn’t have it. And I was right. There was no other way to do it. And it meant choosing it over you. But it was always meant to be temporary.Just until I got what I wanted...But then I had to keep it. I am reminded of the other recent George Clooney vehicle, Wolfs: this is self-indulgent in one dimension, and its merits are almost entirely carried by the efforts of Sandler and Clooney, both of whom give very strong performances which rescue the film from being Bad but do not carry it to greatness. I also found myself wondering what Baumbach is up to right now. The script and direction here seem entirely thoughtless — not so bad as to be offensive, but neither interesting nor characteristic of his earlier and better work. I can dismiss things like the scattershot tone or the half-hearted performances from Laura Dern et al. as being intentional -- it is an ethereal, dreamlike film. But the…