Noah Baumbach’s breakthrough still looks like his sharpest, most personally inflected work.
Beyond being asinine and unwittingly cryptic, the film is also a slice of unintentional sleaze.
Noise never rises above being a tepid urban fantasy unwisely extended into a slight meditation on modern male powerlessness.
Life’s a mess of oft-funny tragedies but Park comes closer to apathy than empathy with its intended laughs.
On Tuesday, when hipsters all over Brooklyn are buying copies of the film, will Armond White leave his house?
The Squid and the Whale dares not harshly judge its all-too-human characters.