Review of While We're Young (2015) by August M — 19 Jan 2016

Simultaneously broad and very specific, While We're Young is certainly Baumbach's funniest and breeziest movie. Ben Stiller, once again, seems right at home in Baumbach's, with the welcome addition of Adam Driver and Naomi Watts who are both also great.

The movie is a push and pull between themes of old vs. young age and authenticity, specifically in art, broadly in life. It's the push and pull of those themes that bogs the movie down. While We're Young doesn't quite know what it wants to be and it's ending certainly proves that as well.

Still, it's always fun to take a trip into Baumbach-world and this is certainly his most entertaining film.