Synopsis
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
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Cast
- Adam DriverCharlie Barber
- Scarlett JohanssonNicole Barber
- Laura DernNora Fanshaw
- Alan AldaBert Spitz
- Ray LiottaJay Marotta
- Julie HagertySandra
- Merritt WeverCassie
- Azhy RobertsonHenry Barber
- Wallace ShawnFrank
- Martha KellyThe Evaluator
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The Telegraph
Marriage Story may often resemble a tug of war between its stars, but it’s on both of their sides. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Marriage Story puts you through the wringer, but leaves you exhilarated at having witnessed a filmmaker and his actors surpass themselves. - 100
Variety
At once funny, scalding, and stirring, built around two bravura performances of incredible sharpness and humanity, it’s the work of a major film artist, one who shows that he can capture life in all its emotional detail and complexity — and, in the process, make a piercing statement about how our society now works. - 100
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Baumbach pulls no punches, and exhumes a personal calamity, most people wouldn’t have the stomach to sift through again. It’s wrenching stuff to be sure, but it’s also excruciatingly funny, loaded with empathy, compassion, and understanding too, featuring outstanding performances from its leads, Driver and Scarlett Johansson. - 100
Time Out
Featuring powerhouse performances by Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, Noah Baumbach's divorce drama is a bruising tour-de-force. - 97
TheWrap
With Marriage Story, Baumbach cements his reputation as one of this generation’s leading humanist filmmakers. - 91
IndieWire
The brilliance of the movie lies in how it starts from a familiar place, then sneaks into transcendence. - 90
Time
Driver ferries Baumbauch’s super-cerebral script — Baumbach could never not be cerebral — to a place beyond thinking, where raw emotion becomes an entropic, hurricane swirl.