Greenberg
Mad
Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) has one friend (Rhys Ifans's Ivan) and one remarkable woman 5/8 his age (Greta Gerwig's Florence) who likes him, but he works as hard as he can to reduce those numbers. Nobody can play obnoxiously engaging like Stiller, but here he concentrates on the first half of the equation, as writer-director Noah Baumbach (wife Jennifer Jason Leigh, who has a small part of Greenberg's long-ago ex-girlfriend, get co-credit for the story) cultivates his reputation of refusing concessions to happy-ending expectations.Ifans, who has mostly played adorable goofballs to date, shows some real chops here, as does mumblecore veteran Gerwig, whose imperfect face the camera could not love more. (The opening credits shot, in fact, simply follows her face for no other reason, it would seem, than to seal our infatuation and ensure that we'll stay on her side despite her inexplicable and immediate infatuation with Greenberg.)
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Män som hatar kvinnor (The girl with the dragon tattoo)--Zoom! Crash! Bang (and bang?)! Mmm, probably not.
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