'Jay Kelly' Review: George Clooney Is Damn Good at Playing a Pampered Movie Star
Noah Baumbach turned 55 last September. And he works in the movie business, which has been in serious disarray over the past few years. It's possible he would have made "Jay Kelly" without those two factors, but it's even likelier that in this case, timing is everything. "Jay Kelly," which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, is suffused with melancholy for a business that seems to be on shaky ground and filled with a nostalgia for times gone by. For people of Baumbach's age and his star George Clooney's age (64), it is very much a movie of its time, . . .