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overthinking entertainment
Movie: Jay Kelly
"Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron."
"All my memories are movies..."
The real star of the new "Price of fame" JAY Kelly is not superstar George Clooney, playing a certain version of himself, but director Noah Baumbach. The way Adam Sandler says 'I disagree' is fantastic. This is even better than 'Marriage story'. It's a hard needle to thread, but what started as a slick and superficial meta-movie about movie-making, becomes, with every twist and turn of the story, into a heart-felt and nearly-real drama.
Clooney is today's Clark Gable (or Cary Grant, or Gary Cooper, they are not sure which). His origin story is not as compelling as the drama that eventually enfolds.
Notable: Among the many good acts here, Jim Broadbend as the old mentor who gave him his first break, the final dance scene, like the one in 'Druk', the tribute clips al taken from actual George Clooney movies, his two young daughters... 9/10.
David Ehrlich's deep B- review.
posted by growabrain on Dec 06, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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A lot of my favorite themes here - I'm a sucker for stories that grapple with celebrity, the way they pull others into their inescapable orbit, the mistakes they made, their regrets, grappling with their identity, etc - but found this to be flawed in how it was executed. Just some weird and impulsive choices that were made to move the story along really took me out of the zone, which made it feel more like a 6.5/10. Perfectly fine to kill 2 hours but was a bit disappointed given "peek inside the lonely and insecure psyche of an A-lister" is my catnip
posted by windbox at 9:47 PM
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Batman was an interesting omission from the clip reel, given the WB news.
posted by emelenjr at 8:13 AM
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