Jay Kelly (2025)

‘Jay Kelly’: Noah Baumbach Steers George Clooney into a Cliched Crisis. Baumbach’s new movie also stars the likes of Adam Sandler and Laura Dern, and the movie constantly gives them the better, more interesting plotline. Noam Baumbach’s movies usually find characters at some sort of dramatic crossroads –– the marital fireworks of ‘Marriage Story’ or the family dynamics of ‘The Meyerowitz Stories.

’ ‘Jay Kelly’ is no different, even if the crises seem less urgent when focused on a wealthy movie star whose biggest issue is that his youngest daughter is about to fly the nest and he’s also reconsidering his life and career in the light of his mentor’s death.