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I always think I'm going to hate Baumbach's films and never do: While We're Young reviewed

Plus: a new documentary about Robert Altman that’s disappointingly unAltmanesque

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

4 April 2015

9:00 AM

While We’re Young

15, Nationwide

Altman

15, Key Cities

Every time I sit down to a Noah Baumbach film I think I’m going to hate it, but I never actually do. From the French New Wave idiosyncrasies of 2013’s Frances Ha to the growing pains of his semi-autobiographical breakthrough The Squid and the Whale, Baumbach always manages to stay just the right side of pretentious, creating lively hipster-filled worlds that amuse as much as they annoy.

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