The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Of the many human characteristics keenly observed in “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected),” the most powerful is the lonely sense of being the only something in one’s family.

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Noah Baumbach's funny, literate story gives Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller plum roles – and may be the best thing he's ever done.

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Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller express brotherly love in Noah Baumbach’s moving Meyerowitz Stories.

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Noah Baumbach’s latest boasts smart writing and a strong ensemble cast, but it’s Stiller who steals the show with a remarkable display of emotion.

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Adam Sandler makes a splendid, bittersweet return to form.

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Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel also shine in this sad, hilarious tale of recrimination and redemption.

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Noah Baumbach’s wry family portrait, and Todd Haynes’s historical study of parallel lives.

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Dustin Hoffman and Adam Sandler shine in Noah Baumbach's familiar The Meyerowitz Stories.

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We would be foolish to hope, but a little more of this side of Sandler would go a long way.

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When a New York sculptor (Dustin Hoffman) is offered an art retrospective at his alma mater, his daughter (Elizabeth Marvel) and two sons, high-flier Matthew (Ben Stiller) and struggling Danny (Adam Sandler), gather to lend support. Quickly, though, half-buried jealousies bubble to the surface.

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Lacking the bite of “The Squid And The Whale” or the airy offbeat naturalism of “Frances Ha,” the film feels some way off Baumbach’s best work, and more like a chance to give some fine actors (and DP Robbie Ryan, on unusually anonymous form) an untaxing run around the paddock.

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This is a cunning and frequently hilarious film about exhuming the past and finding no diamond in the rough.

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Noah Baumbach's witty airing of grievances.

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Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson star in Noah Baumbach's latest comedy of New York family dysfunction.

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The Meyerowitz Stories proves (again) that there's a good Adam Sandler.

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Another Adam Sandler movie that won’t make you laugh.

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