India, Dec. 6 -- How Hollywood loves to turn the lens on itself is no new thing. Jay Kelly, the new Netflix release starring George Clooney as a pensive movie star, is another addition to the list. That Noah Baumbach has now made a film about stardom - one that is reflective at best- is quite a shift. He is certainly no longer the indie filmmaker who made The Squid and the Whale and Frances Ha, and that's okay. But Jay Kelly is so generous in spirit and so mellow in its reflection on the price of stardom that it feels like a different filmmaker altogether. There is none of his self-aware irony and whiffs of situational comedy that made his films so singularly his. I suppose it is a shift in the director's own journey, following the acclai...
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