Jeff, Who Lives At Home - 2012 - 3 Stars

Actors:  Jason Segel, Ed Helms
Director:  Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass

The Duplass brothers seem like the new Millenium's answer to John Cassavetes - their films are about the moment that is happening on screen.  While Jeff, Who Lives At Home builds to a crescendo, that crescendo is not very sensible if one considers all the action before it, but those moments are irrelevant - it's about what's happening now.  They get solid performances out of excellent actors, and their films are more about performance than super-sharp dialogue or plotting.

One thing I've found difficult to parse in movies that are kinda comedies such as this one is the reality of certain comic characters - it's as if the comic aspects are heightened to soothe what might be a very bored audience otherwise, but this heightening robs the film of some pathos it could have otherwise elicited.