About halfway through Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach directs a love scene. I don’t mean that there is a sex scene (those rarely appear in Baumbach’s cinematic universe, except the mortifyingly awkward kind) ...

When Jay Kelly (George Clooney), the titular star of Noah Baumbach’s latest film, tries to pump himself up, he puts his name amongst the illustrious actors who have come before him. “GaryCooper.

Jay Kelly—like George Clooney, who plays the title role in “Jay Kelly”—has been a rich and famous film actor for a very long time. He can’t board a train or do anything else ordinary people do without ...

Does the power of a Hollywood movie star still exist? We live in an era when fewer and fewer big-budget films earn the money they once did and A-list actors are no longer guaranteed box office gold.

Jay Kelly (2025) Film Review from the 63rd Annual New York Film Festival, a movie directed by Noah Baumbach, written by Emily Mortimer and Noah Baumbach and starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler, ...

Noah Baumbach’s latest film has George Clooney playing the last of the old-school movie stars. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we ...

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“You’re the last of the old movie stars,” someone tells Jay Kelly, and because Jay Kelly — main character of a movie called, not surprisingly, “Jay Kelly” — is played by George Clooney, the line ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...