Ultimately, this film is about two well-meaning people coming to grips with who they actually are versus who they've always thought they were supposed to be. And when it's on a roll, While We're Young is hilarious.

| Aug 4, 2016

It's a very funny movie, and a beautifully cast one

| May 28, 2016

The film asks thought-provoking questions about modern technology, friendship and even documentaries that will likely cause deep discussions afterward.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 17, 2015

Baumbach has a great sense of the ridiculous, and a sensitive instinct for keeping the attack under control.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 16, 2015

The wonderful thing about While We're Young and the relationship that develops between Josh and Cornelia and Jamie and Darby is that it's less about resentment than it is a celebration of romantic love. At least initially.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2015

Baumbach, whose films include the searingly funny, autobiographical The Squid and the Whale and the brilliantly uncomfortable Margot at the Wedding, writes wry, sharp, poignant stuff.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 10, 2015

Baumbach plays with universal themes about the uncertainty of aging, the elusive nature of "cool" and the acceptance that comes with settling down ...

| Original Score: B- | Apr 10, 2015

For a while much of this contemporary comedy is great fun - until the party ends and you're ready for these people to go home.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2015

Only an artist at the midpoint between the maypole and maturity could concoct a comedy as potent as "While We're Young."

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 9, 2015

A sometimes poignant paean to struggling to age gracefully while time drags you kicking and screaming to the inevitable end, While We're Young effectively balances wry comedy and bittersweet drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2015

The result isn't entirely riotous, yet Baumbach weaves in plenty of droll observations about the bittersweet burden of middle age.

| Apr 8, 2015

It still has an edge, but it's tempered with experience. Like his frequent collaborator Wes Anderson, Baumbach seems to be reaping the rewards of having grown up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2015

Much of the film's humour is mined from its satirising of Jamie and Darby's retro-hipster lifestyle.

| Apr 3, 2015

The film has [Baumbach's] usual strengths: sharp urban insights, brainy comedy, moments of inspired high exasperation. It also shares a few of his faults.

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2015

One of the pleasures of an intermittently very funny film is its sly and subtle approach toward the attrition between generations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2015

It's a funny thing, the generation gap. Depending where you are standing, it can look like anything from a hairline fracture to an unbridgeable chasm. From Noah Baumbach's point of view, there's plenty of comic mileage at either end of the spectrum.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2015

It's a rueful look at what those in their mid-twenties and mid-forties have to offer each other and what the cultural differences are between those whose time it is now and those whose time it was 20 years ago.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2015

If you've been wishing you could see a good Woody Allen comedy again, you should check out Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, which sees the 45-year-old director moving in on Allen's territory - the Manhattan comedy of manners.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2015

There are so many deserving targets skewered by Noah Baumbach's savvy Ben Stiller comedy While We're Young, you could lose count.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2015

Noah Baumbach is still swinging away at generational divides and the plight of the artist, but here, he trades in his rapier for a foam rubber cudgel.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 2, 2015