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A Family Adriftnew
Nothing in Noah Baumbach's filmography suggests he had within him something as treacherously funny and wrenchingly sad as The Squid and the Whale.
Full of Gracenew
The plot makes this film sounds like a cheap romantic fantasy, contrived to make a chunk of change off wistful women pushing 40. In fact, p.s. is a character-driven drama, concerned more with its protagonist's emotional life than with her romantic one.