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1 May 2015English94 min

While We're Young

6.511 reviews
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Bayesian avg · 11 critic reviews

7.5+ Exceptional · 6.5 Recommended · 5.0 Mixed

6.34 ratings
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User Score · avg of 4 ratings

8.0+ Exceptional · 7.0 Recommended · 5.5 Mixed

Noah Baumbach DirectorNoah Baumbach ScreenplayJames Murphy MusicSam Levy Cinematography

An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

Critic Consensus

Critics received 'While We're Young' with general warmth, with most reviewers praising the performances of its ensemble cast — particularly Ben Stiller, Adam Driver, Naomi Watts, and Amanda Seyfried — alongside sharp, witty dialogue and Baumbach's assured direction. Several critics drew favorable comparisons to Woody Allen's work, highlighting the film's lightness of touch and its honest observations about aging and generational tension. The most notable dissent came from one critic who felt Ben Stiller's performance lacked the complexity the central role demanded, rendering his character one-dimensional rather than sympathetically flawed.

11 reviews · 8 positive

Praised: ensemble cast performances and dialogueCriticised: Ben Stiller's underdeveloped performance

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Critic Reviews (11)

Raja SenTop Critic· Rediff
10.0
"This is the first truly great film of 2015. It is a film worth watching and recommending and loving, like a novel you can't wait to lend to friends you care about. And as the end-credits rolled with Golden Years playing, I realised even David Bowie's older now, too. And that doesn't seem so bad. Just look at Woody Allen."
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Rajeev MasandTop Critic· IBNLive
7.0
"Anyone feeling wistful about their youth will likely relate to the many truths this film holds a mirror to, more than once cutting too close to the bone. I came out feeling wiser and enriched. I think you will too."
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Mihir Fadnavis· Mid Day
8.0
"Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts have never been so likeable, nor have Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried. They're all perfectly cast and perfectly convincing, complemented by crackerjack dialogue. The film has released in limited screens in India, if you find a theater playing this movie I highly recommend you catch it as soon as possible."
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Karan Raikar· BookMyShow
7.0
"Watch it for Ben Stiller and Adam Driver, who both shine in their own right. Charles Grodin has also made a brilliant appearance. Catch it over the weekend!"
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Shalini Langer· Indian Express
7.0
"A delightful and witty comedy, it warmly embraces the likes of us while gently treating those others, ribbing both and mocking none."
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Reagan Gavin Rasquinha· Times Of India
7.0
"...the deft editing and the quick pace makes this a fun watch."
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"Overall, the film is amusing and will appeal to an older audience with a bohemian attitude who is willing to learn and unlearn about life."
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Rohini Nair· Deccan Chronicle
6.0
"...works at many levels — it is at once a humorous jab at our varied obsessions, be it with technology, or with keeping up, or with wanting to stay young. It's also — like that column written by Cheryl Strayed — a look at youth and all its charm and promise and pretensions. It's a look at the things we get to know only when we're no longer so terribly young: That "about eight of the 10 things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false". And that the other two "will prove to be so true that you'll look back in 20 years and howl"."
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Anuj Malhotra· Deccan Chronicle
6.0
"While Adam Driver plays Jamie, the young blowhard well enough, Josh needed an actor who can infuse his being with cruelty, envy and contempt but then render these vices entirely human. Unfortunately, Ben Stiller plays him with a cocksureness that strips away the confusion his character is mired in and makes him appear like a glorious party-pooper, nothing else."
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Ronita Torcato· The Free Press Journal
"Baumbach is a thoughtful filmmaker, his cast is stellar and Ben Stiller( who starred in Baumbach's Greenberg) is endearing as usual."
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Uday Bhatia· LiveMint
"There's a sharpness here, allied with a lightness of touch, that recalls recent Woody Allen. Though Baumbach has always doffed his hat to Woody, it's difficult to imagine the old master doing better with the same material."
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Release Date
1 May 2015
Runtime
94 min
Language
English
Genres
Drama, Comedy

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