The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Netflix | Release Date: October 13, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
SlateSam AdamsOct 12, 2017
It’s easy to make The Meyerowitz Stories sound tortured, and less so to convey the immense but not blinding affection with which Baumbach treats his characters. Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOct 11, 2017
"Meyerowitz” feels very much from the heart. It has an unexpected maturity and warmth, a compassion that seems to reflect Baumbach’s desire to dig as deeply as he can into the myriad conundrums of family life. And, as noted, it is often quite funny. Read full review
100
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 11, 2017
As is customary in Mr. Baumbach’s pictures, the acting is spectacular. Read full review
91
ConsequenceMichael RoffmanOct 3, 2017
Baumbach uses this twisted reunion as a brilliant funnel for all of his world-building — and it’s quite a story, broken down into multiple sections, no less. Yes, he goes nuts with the exposition, but there’s little offense here considering, well, that’s exactly how it would go down in reality. Read full review
90
Village VoiceBilge EbiriJun 21, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories doesn’t quite have the drive and stylistic panache of other recent Baumbach efforts, but it makes up for that with sincerity, as well as moments of subtle satirical genius. Read full review
90
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 23, 2017
With no shtick to fall back on, Sandler is forced to act, and it’s a glorious thing to watch. Read full review
88
IGNJosh LasserOct 19, 2017
Noah Baumbach succeeds in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) in fine fashion, delicately balancing serious issues with lighthearted moments – it is a movie that is equally adept at making the audience cry as it is with making them laugh. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 16, 2017
Sandler gives one of his most authentic performances. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonOct 13, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories shockingly belongs to Sandler, who is absolutely fantastic. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerOct 12, 2017
The comedy is clever; the study of family dynamics is sharper still. Sandler's performance is superb, his character limping through the movie psychically as well as physically. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter TraversOct 12, 2017
Your only mistake would be to not see it at all, and miss out on one of the unalloyed pleasures of the fall movie season. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy BurrOct 11, 2017
In temperament and technique, the writer-director Noah Baumbach occupies a niche exactly between Woody Allen and Wes Anderson. Baumbach’s films are almost all about his own tribe of neurotic upper-middle-class white New Yorkers, but while he has a more novelistic distance on his characters than Allen, his visual style is less antic and whimsical — more traditional — than Anderson’s. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Oct 11, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), is a fresh addition to Noah Baumbach’s ever-expanding gallery of neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 23, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) isn’t the wittiest or most exciting movie that Noah Baumbach has ever made, but it might just be the most humane. Read full review
80
Little White LiesSophie Monks KaufmanDec 1, 2021
The relentless pace of the dialogue is at times exhausting, and the tone never really varies, yet this is forgiven when, hours after viewing, you find yourself grinning into the ether, remembering standout hoots from the cornucopia of Meyerowitz tales. Read full review
80
The AtlanticDavid SimsNov 20, 2017
For all Sandler’s screaming, and Hoffman’s imperious rambling, the film builds to some quietly tragic moments amid its chaotic comedy of family manners. Read full review
80
The New YorkerAnthony LaneOct 16, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories comes across as Baumbach’s ripest and wisest film to date, alert to the fact that so little in life, especially a screwy or a super-ambitious life, is open to resolution. Read full review
80
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeOct 13, 2017
Baumbach’s films may reflect a prickly brand of humanism, but they’re humane all the same. In an era of untrammeled cynicism, each new release feels like an all-too-brief moment of hope. Read full review
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ScreenCrushE. Oliver WhitneyOct 12, 2017
Dysfunctional relationships and bickering families are nothing new, but the raw emotion here elevates The Meyerowitz Stories above Baumbach’s previous work. It may slight some of its more compelling character relationships, but it’s still a bittersweet delight. Read full review
80
EmpirePhil de SemlyenOct 9, 2017
Baumbach’s drama of grown-up kids seeking emotional restitution sees Sandler and Stiller at their best. If it feels like familiar turf for the writer-director, the emotions here are rawer than ever. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaMay 23, 2017
It’s incredible what a difference 12 years makes: Baumbach is an altogether more generous and insightful filmmaker here than he was the last time he told this story. Read full review
80
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 23, 2017
With The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), filmmaker Noah Baumbach writes a new, richly warm variation on a favourite theme: the maddening impossibility of family. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonDave CalhounMay 23, 2017
There’s great energy to this film: quick dialogue, snappy performances and a lived-in feel make us quickly believe this world, its characters and their hang-ups. Read full review
80
CineVueJohn BleasdaleMay 23, 2017
Baumbach writes his dialogue with a sharp pencil and the film bursts with non-sequiturs, put downs and hilarious lines. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 23, 2017
It’s a comedy that doesn’t really have, or aspire to, any very tragic dimension, but it’s touching. The quirks are underpinned by a heartfelt solidity. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 23, 2017
The film doesn’t stint on emotional complexity, but it might be Baumbach’s most accessible to date. Read full review
80
VoxAlissa WilkinsonMay 23, 2017
We rarely get to see Sandler do this kind of straight-faced comedy, and he's so good in The Meyerowitz Stories that he deserves the chance to do more. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerOct 20, 2017
The film does drag on, though, without a great deal of visual distinction, and as the familial complications pile up, the movie seems less like a full-scale dramatic rendering and more like a smartypants comic contraption. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyOct 13, 2017
It’s smart, relatable, laughter-through-psychic pain entertainment that happens to be elevated by a handful of wonderful performances even if it, at times, feels like a lesser version of "The Royal Tenenbaums." Read full review
75
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonOct 12, 2017
The actors make the most of Baumbach’s lively script. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 12, 2017
All the performances are terrific, even when some of the scenes sputter or reiterate the grievances. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleCarla MeyerOct 11, 2017
You also cannot help but think about what Baumbach has that Allen lacks: Empathy for his characters. Not insight into them, but empathy for them. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneOct 1, 2017
Noah Baumbach has made a cunning and frequently hilarious film about exhuming the past and finding no diamond in the rough. Read full review
75
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 23, 2017
Stiller and Sandler strike a warm and believably awkward brotherly connection, hitting some real on screen highs as they sit around the piano with Marvel singing Sandler’s catchy tunes. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekMay 24, 2017
Sandler is terrific here, even if you’re not sure you can stomach another man-child shuffling around in rumpled shorts. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMay 23, 2017
Baumbach’s film for Netflix is more conventionally conceived than some of his best work but benefits from sterling turns from a wonderful cast, most notably Dustin Hoffman and, no kidding, Adam Sandler. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJessica KiangMay 23, 2017
The amiable and undemanding Meyerowitz evokes so many other media — television, short story, theater — that it’s a little unclear as to quite why it’s a film. Read full review
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Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 18, 2017
Structurally, The Meyerowitz Stories is a shapeless and baggy thing. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliOct 14, 2017
The movie feels like Baumbach is working through some family issues. Read full review
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Movie NationRoger MooreOct 14, 2017
It’s light, a little hard to follow the occasionally funny exchanges with all the talking over one another, and perfectly watchable, a real novelty in the Sandler canon if nothing really new for Baumbach. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartOct 13, 2017
Mines the increasingly fertile territory of aging boomer parents and chafing middle-aged siblings, but at irritatingly high volume, with the cantankerous voices of Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman nearly constantly talking over one another. Read full review
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