This observant, clever, and at times painfully funny story showcases Stiller’s rarely tapped versatility as an actor, even if his character takes the entire length of the film to warm up to.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Unexplainable, yet unforgettable. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 11, 2022

Baumbach specialises in autobiographical films which are beautiful, tragic and often horribly uncomfortable, and any filmmaker who can squeeze that much emotion out of his audience deserves his due. It's just that it's not that much fun to actually watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2021

Stiller manages to somehow turn Greenberg, the man, into a sympathetic man-child.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

It is a painful, funny, truthful read on our own times and a peculiar and distressing moment that often happens at 30 or 40 or 50.

| Jan 23, 2020

Although the film sometimes drags (especially for one with a 90 minute run time), Baumbach and Stiller both score a mutual coup with Greenberg.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 19, 2019

On balance, I found my feelings for Greenberg running hot and cold, as if I was being been infected by the protagonist's jagged mood swings. A good sign, I guess. But that's the thing about a misanthropic movie...

| Jul 23, 2019

The indignities of modern life that Greenberg can't bear are peculiarly American. And so is this thoughtful and hilarious film, though some might feel its arty moments and lack of action seem more European.

| Dec 19, 2018

Greenberg is a fantastically complex part to play, but Stiller's performance is superbly nuanced, convincing and brave.

| Aug 30, 2018

This is a sunny, prosperous movie, full of bright light and swimming pools, casual hospitality and people going out to dinner; but its problems are not external villains. It's the internal demons which menace.

| Aug 9, 2018

Thanks to writer-director Noah Baumbach's sharply witty dialogue and poignant performances from Stiller and Gerwig, you can't help but root for these lost souls to find their happy ending.

| Aug 6, 2018

Greenberg is a great spectacle of toxic emotional stasis.

| Jul 10, 2018

It's not as substantial as it believes itself to be, but Greenberg is a good movie, and contrary to a lot of critical practice, good does not equal mediocre.

| Dec 14, 2017

Greenberg is self-indulgent, boring and very cynical (and not in a good way). The anticlimactic ending doesn't sum up the movie but rather leaves you further frustrated at Greenberg for being a miserable, unlikeable person for no apparent reason.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 11, 2017

His sharpest observations are reserved for preternaturally intelligent, hyper-self-conscious outsiders whose existential crises are the failure of the world-and, to some extent, themselves-to live up to their own high expectations.

| Jun 20, 2013

Stiller succeeds in a dramatic role but the script underwhelms with a meandering story and an unlikable lead character.

| Original Score: 2.0/5 | Nov 21, 2012

Not the feel-good film of the year, but Greenberg is a powerful account of how a few lost souls can find meaning and direction in life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2012

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Obviously there's running commentary from director Noah Baumbach -- his characters are never free of context -- but they don't have epiphanies, they don't learn and they don't apologize. It's kind of refreshing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Baumbach's writing and direction of these characters display more of a novelistic touch...but the approach produces a deeply felt view of flawed individuals.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 9, 2011