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44 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The GuardianCatherine ShoardThe GuardianCatherine ShoardAn almost perfect 90-minute hit of confident and inspired comedic commentary.
- 91The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthWhile a truly original comedy, While We're Young is the rare one that also laces rich thematic elements with wonderfully drawn characters to create a picture that's as genuinely hilarious as it is thoughtful about how hopes, ambitions, dreams and ideals of personal and creative accomplishments that ebb and flow across decades.
- 90VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThough While We’re Young is primarily a comedy — and a very funny one at that, managing to be both blisteringly of-the-moment and classically zany in the same breath — Baumbach has bitten off several serious topics, for which laughter serves as the most agreeable way to engage.
- 83HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyThe film is at its best when it simply focuses on this strange dynamic between the two couples and the way they are each looking for something from the other that they don't dare articulate for fear of having to grapple with these weaknesses or flaws in themselves.
- 80CineVueBen NicholsonCineVueBen NicholsonBaumbach is never likely to make a film that doesn't engage with interesting issue, but on this occasion he's made something smart and relevant that really brings the funny, arguably making this his most widely appealing film to date.
- 80The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneThat is what I admire in While We’re Young; it shows a director not so much mooning over the past, with regret for faded powers, as probing his own obsessions and the limits of his style.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy[A] mostly engaging but only fitfully inspired serio-comedy.
- 50Slant MagazineSlant MagazineNoah Baumbach lobs jokes with hectic editing and a Sturgesian velocity, but much of this cross-generational comedy is frantic and wearisomely superficial.