Varying approaches to midlife crises on Netflix

Varying approaches to midlife crises on Netflix George Clooney. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Bryan Berlin.

Eock Hudson used to say, “I can’t play a loser because I don’t look like one.” George Clooney doesn’t either, which makes his casting in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly (15, Netflix) questionable. It’s a film about a kind of male Norma Desmond – the faded star of Sunset Boulevard – trying to find out what’s…

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