If Hollywood were, God forbid, to remake Federico Fellini’s 1963 classic “8 ½,” it’d probably end up being something cloying and insubstantial like Netflix’s “Jay Kelly.”

Film Details

Director: Noah Baumbach

Cast: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Eve Hewson, Emily Mortimer, Isla Fisher, Patrick Wilson, Riley Keough, Greta Gerwig, Jim Broadbent, and Stacy Keach

MPAA Rating: R

Running Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes

Available in theatrical release

Review Rating: 5/10

Admittedly, the comparison isn’t a fair one. After all, Fellini’s surrealist picture about a struggling film director won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and it’s arguably one of the greatest movies about filmmaking. However, I couldn’t help but make the connection.

The shame is that “Jay Kell

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