Jay Kelly

Directed by Noah Baumbach (R)

★★★★

George Clooney’s newest film is “the definition of a movie that goes down easy,” said in Variety . Clooney plays the title character, an aging, George Clooney – like movie star, and director Noah Baumbach brings “a great deal of care and affection” to the task of showing how screen fame shapes a life. “But as much as I enjoyed a lot of Jay Kelly , on some level I didn’t buy it,” because the story demands that we believe Jay has a hidden cold side that Clooney is simply too warm and engaging to sell. The whole endeavor feels like “celebrity navel-gazing on an Olympian scale,” said in the New York Post . Jay, realizing that he’s been so focused on his career that he’s neglected even his two daughters, chooses to accept a career tri

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