Greenberg (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

[lsanderson]

Ben Stiller stars in “Greenberg.”
Why Even Bother Trying to Connect?
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: March 19, 2010

“Hurt people hurt people.” This nugget of therapy talk is passed from one character to another in Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg,” offered as an explanation, an excuse and a sort-of apology. While those four words don’t quite sum up the whole of the human condition, they might stand as a concise summary of Mr. Baumbach’s recent movies. The battling pair of married (and then divorced) writers in “The Squid and the Whale,” the warring sisters in “Margot at the Wedding” — they and their loved ones walk through life nursing psychic wounds and brandishing metaphorical knives. More