The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Name: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 13, 2017
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Adam David Thompson, Adam Sandler, Daniel Flaherty, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel

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Netflix | Release Date: October 13, 2017 | TV-MA

Starring: Adam David Thompson, Adam Sandler, Daniel Flaherty, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel, Emma Thompson, Grace Van Patten, Hannah Mitchell, Judd Hirsch, Ronald Peet

Summary: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the emotional and comic intergenerational tale of adult siblings (Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Elizabeth Marvel) contending with the long shadow their strong-willed father (Dustin Hoffman) has cast over their lives. [Netflix]

Director: Noah Baumbach

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 112 min

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Kenneth Turan

Oct 11, 2017

"Meyerowitz” feels very much from the heart. It has an unexpected maturity and warmth, a compassion that seems to reflect Baumbach’s desire to dig as deeply as he can into the myriad conundrums of family life. And, as noted, it is often quite funny. Read full review

Ty Burr

Oct 11, 2017

In temperament and technique, the writer-director Noah Baumbach occupies a niche exactly between Woody Allen and Wes Anderson. Baumbach’s films are almost all about his own tribe of neurotic upper-middle-class white New Yorkers, but while he has a more novelistic distance on his characters than Allen, his visual style is less antic and whimsical — more traditional — than Anderson’s. Read full review

Josh Lasser

Oct 19, 2017

Noah Baumbach succeeds in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) in fine fashion, delicately balancing serious issues with lighthearted moments – it is a movie that is equally adept at making the audience cry as it is with making them laugh. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

May 23, 2017

We rarely get to see Sandler do this kind of straight-faced comedy, and he's so good in The Meyerowitz Stories that he deserves the chance to do more. Read full review

Tim Grierson

May 23, 2017

With The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected), filmmaker Noah Baumbach writes a new, richly warm variation on a favourite theme: the maddening impossibility of family. Read full review

Carla Meyer

Oct 11, 2017

You also cannot help but think about what Baumbach has that Allen lacks: Empathy for his characters. Not insight into them, but empathy for them. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Oct 13, 2017

Mines the increasingly fertile territory of aging boomer parents and chafing middle-aged siblings, but at irritatingly high volume, with the cantankerous voices of Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Dustin Hoffman nearly constantly talking over one another. Read full review

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tjwells

Oct 13, 2017

It's insane the amount of antisemitism on the internet. This is yet another great film that is getting tanked for no other reason than, well, people are **** I'd put it in the top third of Baumbach's filmography (up there with Kicking and Screaming, Frances, and Mistress America). It's not aIt's insane the amount of antisemitism on the internet. This is yet another great film that is getting tanked for no other reason than, well, people are **** I'd put it in the top third of Baumbach's filmography (up there with Kicking and Screaming, Frances, and Mistress America). It's not a ten, but you gotta balance the scores somehow.… Expand

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gerry6992

Oct 13, 2017

Noah Baumbach is a master in storytelling. This movie is funny, heartfelt and complex. All these characters are spontaneously crazy. I loved the cast.

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Ramzy

Feb 6, 2018

Cinematography: 9/10
Stories: 7:10
Characters: 10/10
Acting: 10:10
Music: 8/10

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nutterjr

Dec 22, 2017

I really connected emotionally to this films and loved for its witty dialogues, quirky characters (with a number of really spot on performances), and dissection of what makes a family (with moments when it works and others where it doesn't).

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moviemitch96

Oct 14, 2017

Pretty standard fare from director Noah Baumbach, so if you're familiar with his quirky dramedy style, you'll likely find much to like about this film. The acting from everyone involved is remarkable, with the likes of Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson all lightingPretty standard fare from director Noah Baumbach, so if you're familiar with his quirky dramedy style, you'll likely find much to like about this film. The acting from everyone involved is remarkable, with the likes of Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, and Emma Thompson all lighting up the screen with their pitch perfect combination of comedic and dramatic acting chops. Seriously though, this movie just proves that Adam Sandler does have potential and can act, he just needs to choose to break away from all of his ridiculous comedies that he seems to love doing too much if he wants to be taken seriously by the masses the way I was able to with him for this film. Aside from the acting, I will admit that some of the scenes, conversations, and direction in the film felt a bit aimless at times, but for the most part, this was still another decent addition to Baumbach's lineup of films.… Expand

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Jalemany

May 3, 2019

Great acting, good script, mostly good heart felt dialogue, and a little bit of wanting to be the weird of the cool. I enjoyed watching it though, and I often wish than more films could be as fresh as this.

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KaptenVideo

Dec 28, 2017

Noah Baumbach, one of America’s indie films’ most acclaimed auteurs, is back to tell us yet another story of defective family and relationships.

His latest was snapped up by Netflix and boasts an impressive cast including Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Sigourney Weaver, Adam Driver, BenNoah Baumbach, one of America’s indie films’ most acclaimed auteurs, is back to tell us yet another story of defective family and relationships.

His latest was snapped up by Netflix and boasts an impressive cast including Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Sigourney Weaver, Adam Driver, Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson.

It’s about elderly father and his three adult children still competing for his affection, and the result is typical Baumbach joint, meaning slow tempo, not much happening, a whole lot of talking, and emotionally distant style.

You may not “get” it at all - and feel that there’s a curious vacuum of interesting stuff happening - or slowly learn to embrace the world he has created, which usually happens when one watches a Baumbach movie.

Critics seem to love it - indeed, “Meyerowitz” seems to be among his most acclaimed works yet - and I have liked most of Baumbach’s movies. But this time, I just couldn’t take it.

For most of its 112 minute length, it felt like a limp and soulless exercise in doing something in Baumbach style, not something that he really did.

The story comprises of three chapters, of which the middle one is close to something that could be called intriguing.

The first chapter lasting 30 minutes feels just empty, and the last is so and so, partly interesting, often just pretentious in a bad way (brothers fighting and public speaking). Yes, the movie has its own distinctive atmosphere but it wasn’t enough for me this time.

When Larry David started creating „comedies about nothing“, and managed to create a whole new modern movement of screen stories not clinging to certain genre, he always found ways to captivate and entertain us. “Meyerowitz” could be called drama about nothing, and it feels just boring.

The movie has brought a lot of acclaim to Adam Sandler in one of the leading roles, proving once again that he’s an able enough actor and can do serious stuff if he wants to.

Funny thing is, every time I watch another typical Adam Sandler comedy, I think: he can do this kind of thing forever and still be liked but doesn’t he want to do something more original, more serious… something more?

And then again, the only serious movie starring Sandler I really have dug was the first, 2002’s „Punch Drunk Love“. All the next ones are just… underwhelming. Not bad in any significant way, just not that interesting either. It’s not his fault, of course, but still… funny.… Expand

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