Hill's first fiction feature as director since 'Mid90s' cuts closer to the bone than last year's markedly similar 'Jay Kelly,' but still overestimates our interest in movie star problems.
By Guy Lodge
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Courtesy of Apple If the bona fide movie star really is a dying breed — as countless doomsaying editorials in this age of franchise-led studio cinema insist is the case — films like “Outcome” won’t encourage many aspiring actors to repopulate the firmament. Arriving mere months after “Jay Kelly,” Noah Baumbach’s self-pitying ode to the nobly receding likes of George Clooney, Jonah Hill‘s second fiction feature as writer-director likewise paints a picture of modern Hollywood celebrity as a gilded cage, centered on a movie star — the absurdly named Reef Hawk — supposedly adored by an invisible public, and scorned by most in his immediate orbit.
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