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

| Aug 30, 2018

Greenberg is a great spectacle of toxic emotional stasis.

| Jul 10, 2018

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

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

Far from the usual slapstick laced with smarts comedy, Greenberg is Ben Stiller's Punch Drunk Love.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2010

There's a lot not to like about Greenberg, the character and the film; and yet, by the end, I found it very touching, and the final scene is so imbued with delicacy and humanity that any stumbles along the way can be forgiven.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2010

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.

Full Review | Jul 6, 2010

Like the director's Kicking and Screaming and Margot at the Wedding, it works as an almost perfect example of a certain kind of American neurosis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2010

Showcases a pleasingly subdued Stiller on great form, and provides more than enough dark giggles to see you through.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2010

Baumbach is capable of brilliant dialogue, and certain scenes have a tidy truthfulness that recall Woody Allen at his pinnacle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2010

Gerwig has an unaffected screen presence that is oddly compelling: a kind of luminous ordinariness

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 11, 2010

Lurching between comedy and agony, Noah Baumbach's new film appears to be the simple tale of a man recovering from a nervous breakdown. Yet Greenberg resonates for days afterwards, like a hangover after a peculiar and fascinating party.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 11, 2010

This is a movie about the awful shock of early middle age, the sudden realisation that you are not one of the young people any more. Like a wasp, it delivers a sharp sting of sadness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2010

Baumbach grows up and suggests he's getting better with age.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2010

Stiller loses his natural comic appeal chasing after the hero's frowns and tics...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 9, 2010

Old Ben Stiller has returned.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 9, 2010

Like a lot of human relationships Greenberg is complicated, infuriating, good-hearted, funny, often painful, and well worth the effort. A sad little movie but also a great one, lit by two astonishing central performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2010

Noah Baumbach again investigates psychologically screwed-up people, although this time with much less comedic impact.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2010

The storytelling may not always be sharp enough, but director Noah Baumbach's vision of a Los Angeles where people with dreams slowly age into bland irrelevance is spot-on.

| Apr 11, 2010