“All my memories are movies,” says the title character of Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach ‘s wry dramedy about an A-list actor having an existential crisis. (The Netflix movie hits theaters on November 14th before premiering on the streaming service on December 5th, you know the drill.) What’s interesting about this bit of dialogue — and about this purposely meta portraiture as a whole — is not who’s saying the line, but who’s playing who’s saying the line.

Every movie star carries memories of their best-known roles with them whenever they appear onscreen; audience members don’t just see a famous face familiar from a million magazine covers and red-carpet galleries, but a simultaneous greatest-hits slideshow whizzing by in their mind’s eye. Flash George Clooney ‘s Mount-Rushmore–worthy

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