Greenberg
Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother (Chris Messina). There Roger soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
28 February 2001, Miami, Florida, USA
27 October 1984, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
25 September 1975, San Salvador, El Salvador
9 July 1975, Santa Cruz, California, USA
11 August 1980, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
7 December 1976, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1 May 1986, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
26 September 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 December 1982, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
12 June 1985, Palo Alto, California, USA
1 October 1989, Sacramento, California, USA
5 July 1980, Snyder, Texas, USA
30 August 1984, Los Angeles County, California, USA
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 05, 2012
Not the feel-good film of the year, but Greenberg is a powerful account of how a few lost souls can find meaning and direction in life.
June 08, 2010
A film of powerful, memorable moments -- some striking dialogue, some great performances, a handful of beautifully played, bracingly discomfiting love scenes -- in search of a structure and, perhaps, a soul.
March 26, 2010
In many ways this is Baumbach's best film, filled with his bitter but often funny misanthropic perspective, but buoyed by the undeniable likability of Stiller and Gerwig.
April 04, 2011
Obviously there's running commentary from director Noah Baumbach -- his characters are never free of context -- but they don't have epiphanies, they don't learn and they don't apologize. It's kind of refreshing.
June 20, 2013
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.
July 06, 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.
April 16, 2010
Noah Baumbach again investigates psychologically screwed-up people, although this time with much less comedic impact.
November 21, 2012
Stiller succeeds in a dramatic role but the script underwhelms with a meandering story and an unlikable lead character.
January 31, 2011
Greenberg is not an enjoyable movie, but it's a unique experience that will mostly appeal to cinephiles with insatiable appetites for character-driven small films.
March 26, 2010
What saves it, however, is Gerwig. The love story ain't credible, but her performance is, perfectly capturing a young woman who doesn't lack confidence so much as a sense of self.
March 09, 2011
Baumbach's writing and direction of these characters display more of a novelistic touch...but the approach produces a deeply felt view of flawed individuals.
March 31, 2010
Stiller is expert at playing self-indulgent types unaware of their boorishness, and Greenberg is no exception.
