Female Film Critics 24/375
Fulfilling Sylvia Plath’s observation: “It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s easier to be somebody else or nobody at all”…Noah Baumbach’s bittersweet buddy movie Jay Kelly explores regret and missed opportunities – on a rarefied level.
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Famous actor Jay Kelly (George Clooney) continually asks after filming a scene, “Can I go again?” That question takes on a whole new meaning by the end of Noah Baumbach’s latest dysfunctional family meets Inside the Actor’s Studio character study of an aging star having second thoughts about his choices in life.
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Lost & Found in Cleveland is the kind of movie that makes you think to yourself, “They don’t make movies like that anymore” without really knowing whether that’s good or bad. The film, like so many slice of Americana films, takes place around the holidays and has that old-timey, small town vibe that makes you nostalgic for a past we’re supposed to yearn for even though it almost certainly wasn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
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