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From The New Yorker

Noah Baumbach’s first movie focuses on the indecisive, enervated months that four college buddies spend together after graduation-clinging to old habits (crossword puzzles, trivia games), living near or on campus-before they go their separate ways. What finally makes them move on, and sets this film apart from other slacker comedies, is the women they’re attracted to: risk-taking students who are more capable than their men of standing on their own. Baumbach doesn’t write grand speeches; he lets details and repartee carry the movie’s emotional weight, and when it finally dawns on his characters that, even in postgrad limbo, life has a way of pushing you along, there’s nothing self-congratulatory about the discovery. The picture has a lovely, understated autobiographical lilt. The perfect ensemble cast includes Josh Hamilton, Carlos Jacott, John Lehr, Chris Eigeman, Parker Posey, and the reigning king of independent-film ennui, Eric Stoltz, as the seen-it-all barkeep. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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