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Jay Kelly
Directed by
Noah Baumbach
R
2025
2h 12m
Comedy
,
Drama
6.5
75%
86%
6.1
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Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting his past and present with his devoted manager Ron. Poignant and humor-filled, pitched at the intersection of regrets and glories.
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Cast of Jay Kelly
George Clooney
Jay Kelly
Adam Sandler
Ron Sukenick
Laura Dern
Liz
Billy Crudup
Timothy
Riley Keough
Jessica Kelly
Grace Edwards
Daisy Kelly
Stacy Keach
Jay's Dad
Jim Broadbent
Peter Schneider
Patrick Wilson
Ben Alcock
Eve Hewson
Daphne
Greta Gerwig
Lois Sukenick
Alba Rohrwacher
Alba
Josh Hamilton
Carter
Lenny Henry
Larry
Emily Mortimer
Candy / Writer / Executive Producer
Nicôle Lecky
Krista
Thaddea Graham
Meg
Isla Fisher
Melanie Alcock
Stanley Townsend
First Voice (voice)
Erica Sweany
Costume Designer
Jay Kelly Ratings & Reviews
Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast)
Linda Holmes
We've seen Adam Sandler be a really good actor. But I think this is maybe my favorite dramatic performance of his in the sense that it is so vulnerable.
leonardmaltin.com
Leonard Maltin
Jay Kelly may be flawed but it is compelling, and there it's always a pleasure to watch George Clooney, especially in a part that suits him so well
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
Thoroughly enjoyable without meaning terribly much beyond the standard (if welcome) message that you shoulda stopped to smell the roses, and maybe it's not too late.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Max Weiss
There's excellent here work from Clooney, who gives arguably his best performance ever in this a meta dissection of his own career and of the strange paradox of having a life that belongs to everyone but yourself.
Slate
Dana Stevens
Linus Sandgren's lambent cinematography captures the sumptuous melancholy of Jay's gilded-cage life, and Nicholas Britell's lush symphonic score adds a sometimes ironic note of classic-Hollywood glamour.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Clooney sure does look fabulous, the embodiment of Hollywood royalty, even if you're not quite sure what, if anything, is going on beneath the surface of that million-dollar smile.
New York Times
Alissa Wilkinson
It feels personal not just to Clooney but to Baumbach.
USA Today
Brian Truitt
It's a very meta Hollywood version of "A Christmas Carol," with Clooney brandishing both his signature grin and palpable gravitas as a man shown the consequences of his existence not via ghosts but his own conscience.
The New Republic
Andrew Marzoni
Jay Kelly, a minor film with delusions of grandeur, lacks the unvarnished middle-aged pathos of Greenberg or the raw emotion of Marriage Story.
Washington Post
Michael Andor Brodeur
It's beautifully shot, bustles with strong performances by a roundly endearing cast and indulges in an old-Hollywood elegance well-suited to its story: the late-life crisis of its titular megastar, played - embodied, really - by George Clooney.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Trier's films don't treat depression like something that's got to get fixed, or relegate the depression to a secondary character, othering it. Uniquely, depression feels first-person-lived in a Trier film.
Associated Press
Mark Kennedy
Reality and fiction beautifully weave in and out in "Jay Kelly," director Noah Baumbach's love letter to Hollywood that, in other hands, could so easily have become just a love letter to Clooney.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
We wander through this sort of Fellini-esque movie. The difference is that Mastroianni knew he was living the sweet life... This guy is just [a dunce].
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
It's a reminder that the biggest source of magic in movies is a performer who can, suddenly and without warning, show us the human heart.
NPR
Bob Mondello
Baumbach has wandered into the territory of 8½ and Stardust Memories and he gets a bit lost in the woods, but Clooney's magnetism goes a decent way to making things palatable.
AARP Movies for Grownups
Thelma Adams
There's a crush of talent here but less wisdom than a trip to the corner guru.
The Travers Take
Peter Travers
George Clooney is a movie star and Adam Sandler is his manager in a deceptively lighthearted Noah Baumbach comedy that hides a world of Hollywood hurt
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
It's a fine line between humanizing a difficult character and letting him off the hook entirely, and while Baumbach has it in him to be an unsparing dramatist, he doesn't do enough to make Jay (or us) squirm.
The Atlantic
David Sims
Clooney's a strong-enough star to sell Jay's achy heart, even amid the glitz and glamour. Baumbach's odyssey into more treacly territory is an attention-worthy gambit, though one hopes he doesn't lock the grouchiness away forever.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
"Jay Kelly" is Baumbach's best film and, from an artistic standpoint, his first complete success.
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