The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Director - Noah Baumbach
Writer - Noah Baumbach
Starring - Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel, Grace Van Patten
"If he isn't a great artist that means he's just a prick."
Admit it, you saw this as a new Adam Sandler Netflix film and just decided to skip it. Well it is a new Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, Mistress America, The Squid and the Whale) film and Adam Sandler is just along for the ride. Once in a blue moon Sandler puts on his acting pants and finds a director who knows how to use him and channels his comedic tendencies into actual quality. The gold standard of this is Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love in which Sandler's rage is run through a filter of pure love and the desperate need to be with Emily Watson. Noah Baumbach uses that rage to punctuate Danny Meyerowitz's simmering anger that mostly stems from his relationship with his father Harold (Hoffman). Needless to say, this is good Adam Sandler.
