OPENS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6
MARRIAGE STORY
Comedy/Drama – 2019 – USA – 136 Minutes – Netflix – Rated R
A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes. An incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Written & Directed by Noah Baumbach
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Merritt Wever, Ray Liotta, Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Kyle Bornheimer, Mark O’Brien
At once funny, scalding, and stirring, built around two bravura performances of incredible sharpness and humanity, it’s the work of a major film artist, one who shows that he can capture life in all its emotional detail and complexity — and, in the process, make a piercing statement about how our society now works. – Variety
Marriage Story sees the end of a marriage as cause for both mourning and bittersweet comedy. The relationship is changing, but not ending. And the evolution is something to behold. To get a story like this right requires a sense of the comical and the absurd along with the devastating — and Marriage Story delivers. – Vox
At the heart of Marriage Story are two career-best performances from Driver and Johansson. There is sensitivity, wit and intelligence in abundance, and in one barnstorming scene the kind of raw emotional nudity that’s rarely captured on screen: it’s the painful core of the movie which the laughter might ease but can’t erase. – CineVue
The joys, grace notes and riches of Baumbach’s latest are endless. – RogerEbert.com
Marriage Story is an extraordinary tale of untethering, one that will be revisited and referenced for years to come as a near-faultless example of the craft of filmmaking. – Flickering Myth
This is hilarious, heartbreaking cinema – a work that will make you burst out laughing one moment, and leave you tearing your hair out the next. – Globe and Mail
OPENS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6
