Confidence boy

While We're Young

Crit

Never trust anyone [insert vertically directional preposition] [insert age]. In the new film by Noah Baumbach (45), ambitious documentary filmmaker Jamie (Adam Driver, 31, but playing mid-20s) and his artisanal-ice cream-making wife (Amanda Seyfried, 29, ditto) adopt dithering documentary filmmaker Josh (Ben Stiller, 49) and his producer wife Cornelia (Naomi Watts, 46) in order (spoiler alert) to get access to her legendary documentary filmmaker father (Charles Grodin, on the cusp of 80).

The film's relationship to Greenberg, in which Baumbach and Stiller first explored the generation gap, is clear, but there the character on the upside of the gap is vastly less sympathetic; here the heartbreak of discovery--in this case that the bro-love in which the elder had invested so much was based on simulation--is as palpable as in any conventional romance.

Trailers

• The Gift--Another toxic friendship flick, with potentially homicidal overtones.
• Dope--I may be too old (and white) for this, but the trailer makes me hope not.