76
Metascore
39 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinBittersweet and beautifully realized, harsh but humane, Greenberg is a self-consciously small film that nevertheless leaves an indelible mark.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumBaumbach's movies are addictive dispatches from a genteel jungle of white privilege, where highly educated people behave badly. I can't take my eyes off the exotic wildlife.
- 80The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThis is tricky, ambiguous material, seemingly better fitted to a short literary novel than to a movie, and it could have gone wrong in a hundred ways, yet Baumbach handles it with great assurance.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanGreenberg is a movie of throwaway one-liners and evocatively nondescript locations. The style is observational, the drama is understated, and, when the time comes, it knocks you out with the subtlest of badda-booms.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfWhen Stiller indulges in moments of unfulfilled rage, this has real desperation.
- 75ObserverSara VilkomersonObserverSara VilkomersonMr. Baumbach has a knack for capturing real-life dialogue--particularly and hilariously how people tend not to listen to the person on the other side of the conversation.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttWhile winning no points for originality, Baumbach and his co-conspirator in the script, Jennifer Jason Leigh -- have created an all-too-convincing portrait of a 40-year-old man in emotional freefall.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyAs a study of stasis and of people conscious of not living the lives they had imagined for themselves, the picture offers a bracing undertow of seriousness beneath the deceptively casual, dramatically offhand surface.
- 70New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe movie may wear its shagginess on its sleeve, but Stiller knows exactly what he’s doing.
- Although Ben Stiller’s brand of nervy comic ticks can prove irritating on occasions, here he is kept in check so that the humor and the pathos shine through.