Synopsis
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
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Cast
- Ben StillerRoger Greenberg
- Greta GerwigFlorence Marr
- Rhys IfansIvan Schrank
- Jennifer Jason LeighBeth (Beller's Party)
- Mark DuplassEric Beller (Beller's Party)
- Merritt WeverGina
- Chris MessinaPhillip Greenberg
- Brie LarsonSara
- Juno TempleMuriel
- Susan TraylorCarol Greenberg
Recommendations
- 91
The A.V. Club
Bittersweet and beautifully realized, harsh but humane, Greenberg is a self-consciously small film that nevertheless leaves an indelible mark. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Baumbach's movies are addictive dispatches from a genteel jungle of white privilege, where highly educated people behave badly. I can't take my eyes off the exotic wildlife. - 80
The New Yorker
This is tricky, ambiguous material, seemingly better fitted to a short literary novel than to a movie, and it could have gone wrong in a hundred ways, yet Baumbach handles it with great assurance. - 80
Village Voice
Greenberg is a movie of throwaway one-liners and evocatively nondescript locations. The style is observational, the drama is understated, and, when the time comes, it knocks you out with the subtlest of badda-booms. - 80
Time Out
When Stiller indulges in moments of unfulfilled rage, this has real desperation. - 75
Observer
Mr. Baumbach has a knack for capturing real-life dialogue--particularly and hilariously how people tend not to listen to the person on the other side of the conversation. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
While winning no points for originality, Baumbach and his co-conspirator in the script, Jennifer Jason Leigh -- have created an all-too-convincing portrait of a 40-year-old man in emotional freefall. - 70
Variety
As a study of stasis and of people conscious of not living the lives they had imagined for themselves, the picture offers a bracing undertow of seriousness beneath the deceptively casual, dramatically offhand surface.
