While We're Young
A24 | Release Date: March 27, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
Positive:
37
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottApr 10, 2015
Baumbach, however -- while not entirely past that particular cocktail of curmudgeonly emotions -- demonstrates an ability to laugh at his own apparent age hang-ups. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySep 15, 2014
[A] mostly engaging but only fitfully inspired serio-comedy. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezApr 9, 2015
While We’re Young starts off as an empathetic, funny look at middle age and winds up as profound and schematic as a Neil Simon play — or, for the younger set, an episode of "The New Girl." Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApr 2, 2015
While We’re Young is one step forward and two steps back for writer-director Noah Baumbach, whose movies are never less than intelligent but, at their worst, tend to settle for gestures instead of movements. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedMar 24, 2015
A dreary bummer. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayMar 23, 2015
Noah Baumbach lobs jokes with hectic editing and a Sturgesian velocity, but much of this cross-generational comedy is frantic and wearisomely superficial. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 26, 2015
Youth may be wasted on the young in this muddled movie. But age is equally wasted on the aging. Read full review
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