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Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig are making movies about my generation, right now. They have an insight that would be impressive even if the movies themselves (this and the lovely Frances Ha) were not so buoyant and funny. This one has a bit more of a cynical streak than Frances Ha did, but its barbs of darkness are frequently shouted down by the screwball commotion. Gerwig is a fireball. She’s eminently watchable even when her character is being insufferable, and especially when that insufferable shell begins to waver and she is vulnerable, just for a moment; because underneath all that bluster is someone filled with doubt and insecurity. Lola Kirke, too, is a force whose straight-woman performance rises to meet Gerwig’s luminous whirlwind. These are complex, interesting characters that deepen and enrich the fast-paced mannered comedy of the last act. It fails me to sum up the complex ironies that make this all work so well, but the film skips along with such youthful energy (and a throw-back, faux 80’s synth soundtrack) that it will be easy to watch it many more times in the attempt.

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