It goes without saying that a person who is or was a famous millionaire is unlikely to elicit sympathy, but sometimes such individuals can break our hearts, despite our prejudices against them.

On the strength of his stellar new Hollywood drama, Jay Kelly , Noah Baumbach understands this irony better than most. The movie, which debuted on Netflix on Dec. 5 following a brief theatrical run, centers on a movie star around whom minions, handlers, and advisers flit as though he is still a consequential figure. Against such appearances, 60-year-old Jay Kelly (George Clooney, doing unusually sensitive and soulful work) is persuaded that he is friendless, worries that he has been a derelict father to his grown daughters, and is sent into a post-midlife midlife crisis upon learning of the dem

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