Ryan Morris’s review published on Letterboxd:
What I love about Scarlett: She plays it tender and playful, you feel the weight on her shoulders. You see the responsibility overwhelm her. She oozes heartbreak and confusion, ion and sorrow. She’ll make you cry, guaranteed.
What I love about Adam: The sharpness he brings to it all, the endless encapsulating fear punctuated with bursts of rage, bursts of energy, bursts of warmth. It’s a performance of incomprehensible humanity. He’ll make you cry more. Give him the Oscar now.
What I love about Noah: The way he balances humour and heartbreak. The realness of his script, the rawness of his direction. Baumbauch’s style has never come to life like this before, as he ditches the quirk for the grit but doesn’t lose his charm. It’s a stunning, funny, devastating script.
What I love about Marriage Story: It doesn’t choose a side. It doesn’t ask you to, either. It hangs back and presents two characters at the crossroads, accepting the inevitability of a new path but clueless as to how to get there, and it does so without ever forcing its hand. It’s natural and grounded, funny and entertaining, brutal and bruising. With complex, moving, unshakeable performances from Johansson and Driver, Marriage Story finds the humanity between two people at their worst. It is simply outstanding.