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Cube Critic: 'While We're Young'; MSPIFF

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by Euan Kerr

April 03, 2015

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in 'While We're Young'
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in 'While We're Young'.
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Cube Critic Euan Kerr joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about a new comedy, While We're Young, written and directed by Noah Baumbach and starring Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts.

"This is the best movie I've seen this year," Euan says.

Stiller and Watts play a disaffected couple who are fairly successful but are in a rut. Then one day, they befriend a twentysomething hipster couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) who provide a new, fresh outlook on life.

Euan describes the film as witty, sharp and even a bit cringe inducing, because "Frankly, don't we all recognize a little bit of ourselves in all of these characters?"

While We're Young is rated R and is screening at the Landmark Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis. View the trailer below.

Also, Euan notes the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival starts next week. It opens with a funny film, The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed out a Window and Disappeared, and closes with the Bill Pohlad film, Love and Mercy, the Brian Wilson biopic. In all, the festival includes screenings of close to 200 films from every genre and from all over the world.