Baumbach should really write him a Volume Two.
A great Adam Sandler performance makesThe Meyerowitz Storiesone of Noah Baumbachs best, the pieces headline proclaims.
Watching him work out the difference is the films greatest pleasure.
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Watching him work out the difference is the films greatest pleasure.
ButThe Meyerowitz Storiesclarifies and revivifies those earlier films familiar themes of coping with privilege, and inherited familial shortcomings.
Their characters are raw, vulnerable, likeable/frustrating in equal measure, and above all believable.
Ultimately,The Meyerowitz Storiesis a devastatingly well-observed expression of that theme.
Its a tale of regrets and sibling rivalry and daddy issues and disappointment with life leavened with late-flowering tenderness.
He reminded me of someone in the White House.
But it is Ben Stiller who really steals it, with his big speech about his dad.
