Overview
- The Netflix drama is in select theaters now and begins streaming Dec. 5 on Netflix with an R rating for language.
- Reviewers praise George Clooney’s soulful portrayal of an aging icon reckoning with identity, family, and the hollowing effects of celebrity.
- Noah Baumbach directs from a script co-written with Emily Mortimer, featuring Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, and Grace Edwards.
- Critics describe narrative beats that include a mentor’s death, a viral run-in with an old colleague, and a trip to Italy that pushes a family reckoning.
- The film folds memory vignettes and references to Clooney’s real roles into playful nods to classic cinema to blur fiction and biography.