Jay Kelly

A famous actor walks off the film he is shooting and follows his daughter Daisy across Europe. On the way he runs into old fights, the daughters he has drifted from and his ageing father. A heroic act he stumbles into goes viral and complicates the trip further. Waiting at the end is a career tribute ceremony in Tuscany. Noah Baumbach directed and wrote it with Emily Mortimer. George Clooney and Adam Sandler star. Linus Sandgren shot it on 35mm. Nicholas Britell wrote the score. Amy Pascal and David Heyman produced. Filming ran from March 2024 in New York, London and Tuscany. It premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on 28 August 2025, opened in cinemas on 14 November 2025 and arrived on Netflix on 5 December. Critics praised the leads. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus notes Clooney riffing on his own star persona with disarming vulnerability and Sandler expanding his dramatic range. Both actors were nominated for Golden Globes. Who it is for: viewers who like Baumbach on family and regret. Who it is not for: anyone with no appetite for a famous man feeling sorry for himself. That is exactly the subject, and the film is not very hard on him.