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Metascore
53 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinMarriage Story may often resemble a tug of war between its stars, but it’s on both of their sides.
- 100The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschMarriage Story puts you through the wringer, but leaves you exhilarated at having witnessed a filmmaker and his actors surpass themselves.
- 100VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanAt once funny, scalding, and stirring, built around two bravura performances of incredible sharpness and humanity, it’s the work of a major film artist, one who shows that he can capture life in all its emotional detail and complexity — and, in the process, make a piercing statement about how our society now works.
- 100The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangBaumbach pulls no punches, and exhumes a personal calamity, most people wouldn’t have the stomach to sift through again. It’s wrenching stuff to be sure, but it’s also excruciatingly funny, loaded with empathy, compassion, and understanding too, featuring outstanding performances from its leads, Driver and Scarlett Johansson.
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfFeaturing powerhouse performances by Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, Noah Baumbach's divorce drama is a bruising tour-de-force.
- 97TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeWith Marriage Story, Baumbach cements his reputation as one of this generation’s leading humanist filmmakers.
- 90Driver ferries Baumbauch’s super-cerebral script — Baumbach could never not be cerebral — to a place beyond thinking, where raw emotion becomes an entropic, hurricane swirl.
- 85Vanity FairRichard LawsonVanity FairRichard LawsonFor all its strife and sorrow, Marriage Story is a generous film. It sensitively acknowledges the ways people fail each other, and the ways they don’t. It’s well worth your time. Maybe don’t watch it with your spouse, though.
- 80The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksBaumbach seeks to mine his material for laughs, no matter how desperate the situation becomes.