Greenberg

Greenberg is a fantastically complex part to play, but Stiller's performance is superbly nuanced, convincing and brave.

Greenberg is a great spectacle of toxic emotional stasis.

Greenberg is self-indulgent, boring and very cynical (and not in a good way). The anticlimactic ending doesn't sum up the movie but rather leaves you further frustrated at Greenberg for being a miserable, unlikeable person for no apparent reason.

His sharpest observations are reserved for preternaturally intelligent, hyper-self-conscious outsiders whose existential crises are the failure of the world-and, to some extent, themselves-to live up to their own high expectations.

Far from the usual slapstick laced with smarts comedy, Greenberg is Ben Stiller's Punch Drunk Love.

This observant, clever, and at times painfully funny story showcases Stiller’s rarely tapped versatility as an actor, even if his character takes the entire length of the film to warm up to.

Unexplainable, yet unforgettable. [Full review in Spanish]

Baumbach specialises in autobiographical films which are beautiful, tragic and often horribly uncomfortable, and any filmmaker who can squeeze that much emotion out of his audience deserves his due. It's just that it's not that much fun to actually watch.

Stiller manages to somehow turn Greenberg, the man, into a sympathetic man-child.