As a painfully honest portrait of a relationship on the rocks inches from reconciliation, Marriage Story is a revelation, but films including The Worst Person in the World have done it better.

| Feb 15, 2025

“Marriage Story” could’ve easily been called “Divorce Story”, but the contradicting title suggests that marriage is a failed institution.

| Jan 18, 2025

Here’s director Noah Baumbach at his usual best, lending a levelheaded perspective on a love on the rocks and the unnecessary vitriol born out of a couple’s disappointments and frustrations.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 31, 2024

If you want to know what emotional evisceration feels like, then look no further than Netflix’s upcoming movie Marriage Story, a rich and superbly made balancing act of joy and sorrow.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Director Noah Baumbach captures a marriage life cycle in all its phases with such emotion and detail, almost as if he has a personal connection to the experience. Whatever the case, it has led to his best work to date.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 14, 2024

Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson's performances and charm make this film intensely watchable.

| Mar 26, 2024

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver give the best performances of their lives. Despite its replay value being affected (a rewatch is very unlikely), it's a phenomenal lesson in storytelling that stays with us long after it's finished.

| Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2023

Channeling this nostalgia, and building its conversations off the back of its neatly-drawn dualities, Marriage Story finds its meat in the magnification of minutiae...

| Jun 5, 2023

Noah Baumbach’s astounding family drama...

| Mar 7, 2023

Writer/director Noah Baumbach’s incisive and insightful examination of a dissolving marriage features searing performances by Adam Drive and Scarlet Johansson.

| Dec 7, 2022

[It] eventually got under my skin as about the sadness of winding down a long-term relationship that simply didn't work, when two partners who've thoroughly internalized each others' rhythms, and who may never fully unlearn that intimacy, have to split.

| Dec 5, 2022

There is an old adage. Write what you know. In doing so [Baumbach] has delivered his most emotional, heartfelt, accomplished and grown-up film to date.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 11, 2022

The enormous thing about Marriage Story is that presents life as it is, filled with gray areas and with disappointment amid happiness. Probably the best acting Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson have ever given. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 21, 2022

As we sit back and observe this cross-country separation, Baumbach gives us lots to consider: relationships are tough, splitting up is tougher, and for some lawyers divorce is a lucrative business.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

‘…Marriage Story is the most mature work from Baumbach so far, a complex view of good people who find that goodness isn’t enough to immunise them against the insidious viruses of past-vanity and domestic over-reach…'

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2022

Noah Baumbach’s narrative does a wonderful job of revealing the retrospective romance of companionship through the procedural pain of separation.

| Jul 20, 2022

Marriage Story has much more on its mind than other films about divorce, which elevates it beyond the limits of its well-treaded subject matter and into a realm of extraordinary filmmaking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022

Marriage Story is a weighty, dramatic look at a once happily married couple going through the many painful stages of separation followed by divorce. It's anchored by layered, exceptional performances by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 14, 2022

Baumbach's heartwrenching follow up to The Meyerowitz Stories is equally loud and anguished as it is soft and sweet.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Jan 14, 2022

A raw and real look at love and marriage.

| Sep 16, 2021