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Jay Kelly

DramaComedy

Directed by Noah Baumbach

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron. From TMDB

236 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Sep 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How this works

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Jay Kelly is a 2025 drama comedy film, directed by Noah Baumbach, starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler and Laura Dern.

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  • Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 27, 2025

    My hot 2025 movie take is that the montage at the end of Jay Kelly should have had Batman and Robin in it.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    The American Film Institute has chosen their Top 10 Films of 2025: Avatar: Fire and Ash Bugonia Frankenstein Hamnet Jay Kelly Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams Wicked: For Good Special Award: It Was Just An Accident

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    Noah Baumbach’s ‘JAY KELLY’ debuts on Rotten Tomatoes at 86% • Follows an aging movie star who must reckon with his life choices and artistic legacy • Described as one of the best movies of George Clooney’s late career Read our review: bit.ly/DFKelly

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  • Letterboxd @letterboxd.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    First look at Noah Baumbach’s next film, Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler, and Laura Dern 👀 In theaters November 14 and on Netflix December 5.

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  • C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    Jess and I did a double feature of NOUVELLE VAGUE and JAY KELLY this weekend and I'm still thinking about it. Netflix has two of the best navel-gazing pieces of cinema about making cinema you'll see all year. If you haven't seen them, double feature them NOW! Such great meditations on life and art.

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  • Letterboxd @letterboxd.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    Watch the teaser trailer for Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler 🎥 The film will be released in select theaters on November 14 and stream on Netflix December 5.

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  • Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    I didn’t think Jay Kelly was a good movie but Adam Sandler was surprisingly great in it, which is kind of his thing now! & because I am pathologically interested in movies about Hollywood, it fulfilled my needs regardless of actual quality

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  • Sean Fennessey @seanfennessey.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2025

    Dec. on Big Pic: 12/2 WAY OF WATER Watch-Along 12/4 Top 5 of '25 12/8 Golden Globes Noms 12/10 JAY KELLY 12/12 WAKE UP DEAD MAN 12/15 HAMNET 12/17 2022 Movie Draft 12/10 AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH 12/22 IS THIS THING ON? 12/24 MARTY SUPREME 12/26 25 for '25 - No 2 12/29 HOUSEMAID 12/31 25 for '25 - No 1

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  • Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    I feel like we're already in a fourth wave of counter-counter-counterreactions to Noah Baumbach's new movie Jay Kelly. I unreservedly loved it. It starts as a warmhearted portrait of a movie star but winds up being a startlingly unsentimental look at reaping what you sow in late middle age. >

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  • George Hahn @georgehahn.comBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Tonight’s movie: “Jay Kelly” (2025), directed by Noah Baumbach

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    ‘JAY KELLY’ tells the story of an aging movie star who is struggling to define his legacy, allowing George Clooney to deliver one of the most vulnerable performances of his career. Find out more in our review... discussingfilm.net/2025/09/02/j...

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  • On Cinema at the Cinema @oncinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 12, 2025

    It's Movie Time at the Manor... Stream Season 16 Episode 7 'Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ and ‘Jay Kelly’ plus everything else On Cinema right now on the HEI Network via website or HEI App!: heinetwork.tv/on-cinema-at...

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  • Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    Jay Kelly, which releases today on Netflix after a brief run in theaters (welcome to the future of all movies! 🙃), is Noah Baumbach's bittersweet tribute to Hollywood, w/ George Clooney & Adam Sandler as a movie star in a late-career tailspin & his long-suffering manager: slate.com/culture/2025...

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  • Letterboxd @letterboxd.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2025

    George Clooney reflects on his television and film roles including ER and The Perfect Storm 📺 Watch the full interview: boxd.it/dAc Jay Kelly is now streaming on Netflix.

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  • Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    So we saw JAY KELLY. Or at least, I saw it. Ann saw half of it and went to bed. It's pretty terrible, for a movie with that much talent involved. A star vehicle about a star who appears in star vehicles, feeling bad about being a star, all while the movie begs you to sympathize with him.

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  • Kath @kathyburke.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    Jay Kelly is a very bad film #review

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  • Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    I gotta be honest... I fell asleep during Jay Kelly, the new movie starring George Clooney. It really felt inbred and vapid.

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  • david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    Jay Kelly: very mixed on Noah Baumbach’s saddest but most sentimental movie, in which George Clooney turns out to be weirdly miscast as George Clooney. Sandler wasted. The last five minutes just about save the whole thing tho. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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  • Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    For this week's POP STYLE OPINIONFEST podcast, we pay tribute to Rob Reiner, explain a bit about the digital publishing apocalypse and review #JayKelly and #WakeUpDeadMan, one of which we loved tomandlorenzo.com/2025/12/pop-...

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  • Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    Red Carpet Rundown: The stars came out to sparkle at the #VeniceFilmFestival premiere of #JayKelly tomandlorenzo.com/2025/08/veni...

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  • Aura @aurahack.caBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    forgot to update again oops. saw: park chan-wook's new film, No Other Choice. Banger. letterboxd.com/aurahack/fil... Palestine 36. Flawed, glad I saw it. letterboxd.com/aurahack/fil... Jay Kelly. Noah Baumbach is a hack. letterboxd.com/aurahack/fil...

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 2, 2026

    Is George Clooney a movie star? Is the Pope a Catholic? I'll answer such tricky questions in today's review of Netflix's Jay Kelly. With several big names attempting to convince us Clooney is nothing of the sort, this analysis of movie stardom is well timed. 4/5 film-authority.com/2026/01/02/j...

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  • Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    With the debut of Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Americans breathe a sigh of relief that we finally have a movie about a rich & successful actor who is nonetheless sad

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  • Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    George and Amal Clooney came to the New York Film Festival premiere of #JayKelly and it's time for us to stand on our truth and state it without fear: Girlfriend's got some tacky-ass style preferences tomandlorenzo.com/2025/09/new-...

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  • JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    With the upcoming holiday release of Marty Supreme, we'll finally have an answer to one of contemporary Hollywood's biggest questions: is Timotheé Chalamet the first *real* movie star since Jay Kelly?

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  • Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    JAY KELLY, an odd film from Noah Baumbach but not quite as odd as it seems on first glance: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/m...

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  • Andy Kindler @andykindler.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 1, 2026

    I just watched Jay Kelly. More like Noah Baumbomb. Who’s with me? The movie was 9 hours long.

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  • Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    JAY KELLY (2025): Noah Baumbach will not rest until he has cast every beloved male movie star over 50 as a disappointing dad and I do love him for that.

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  • Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2025

    Charlie Rowe (Wolf Hall, Slow Horses, Jay Kelly) wrote, directed & starred in a short film adaptation of my story ‘The Natural’ (from my collection I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time For @prototypepubs.bsky.social) and it’s premiered online today! www.minuteshorts.co.uk/film_player/...

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  • Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    Slate Movie Club 2025 concludes with my wrap-up post about Billy Crudup's bravura one-scene turn in Jay Kelly; the emergence of rapper ASAP Rocky as a movie star; the most memorable needle drop of the year; & a benediction, via Jim Jarmusch, for the cinematic year to come. slate.com/culture/2025...

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  • Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    George and Amal Clooney drop a glamour bomb on the #BFI London Film Festival red carpet for the premiere of #JayKelly tomandlorenzo.com/2025/10/bfi-...

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  • altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    The cast of “Jay Kelly” arrived together at the Venice Film Festival without Clooney. I wouldn’t want to be seen in public with him either.

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  • madame web’s web @stunninggun.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 6, 2026

    i forgot to mention that I watched Jay Kelly while I was sick and it was the worst film I have seen in years. it was so bloated and overwrought. it felt like I was literally watching a director grasp at straws on a screen for 2.5 hours.

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  • Ben Carlson @bencarlson007.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    Watching Jay Kelly on Netflix It’s fun Clooney and Sandler are so great together Tons of other big names in it This is the kind of movie that will (right or wrong) never be in the theater anymore

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  • Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.ukBluesky · Dec 6, 2025

    🎞️🍿 A film with Italy's iconic Harlequin train, Tuscan scenery & George Clooney - a blockbuster combination. But Netflix 'Jay Kelly' doesn't quite hit the mark. Rail fans will enjoy picking holes in the train scenes, starting with Arlechino in Gare de Lyon... 🎟️ www.netflix.com/us/title/815...

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  • Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    JAY KELLY is now on Netflix. Neither a Hollywood satire nor a straightforward lament for an aging star, it's spikier and more intriguing.

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    Jay Kelly: George Clooney's movie star has an existential crisis and takes his entourage across Europe in Noah Baumbach's star-studded comedy-drama, which blurs Clooney with the character he's playing in it's examination of celebrity. However, Adam Sandler steals the show as his loyal agent. #LFF

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  • Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    George Clooney stars in Jay Kelly, a movie about an aging star suffering from an existential crisis that almost gave me one of my own.

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  • Letterboxd @letterboxd.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    Jay Kelly (2025), directed by Noah Baumbach; written by Emily Mortimer, Noah Baumbach boxd.it/EsWw

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  • John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.comBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    There are two kinds of Netflix (or any streamer) movie. One is a TV movie you don’t mind eating in front of when you can’t be arsed looking for anything else. (Jay Kelly) And the other is a genuinely great piece of work that should have been on the big screen. (Train Dreams)

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  • The Fixer (Jaime Leah) @jaimeleahhh.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    gonna rewatch Jay Kelly forever exclusively for the Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler only #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 12, 2025

    Today's #LFF was a double of two films overshadowed by other exploring similar themes at the fest. I thought Jay Kelly was better than Sentimental Value, and H is for Hawk isn't even the best bird-themed grief movie when The Thing with Feathers exists.

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  • The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2026

    Chock full of quips & slapstick antics, Ernst Lubitsch’s TO BE OR NOT TO BE finds the beloved screwball director satirizing fascism with his signature sophistication! See it on Wed Feb 4 in our series All My Memories are Movies: Cinema That Inspired JAY KELLY! paristheaternyc.com/film/to-be-o...

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  • Jim @jimstewart.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    Bluesky movie Review: Jay Kelly George Clooney leads with a fairly decent script and cast. The story is a bit uneven, but pulls together nicely. Adam Sandler should get an Oscar nod for this one. 3.5 buttholes out of 5.

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  • Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    Netflix’s “Jay Kelly” - a love letter to movie stars, set as someone pointed out in a universe where modern cinema was defined by Clooney-directed movies, collaborations with the Coens and the early films of DreamWorks - has big “serial killer eulogizing their victims” energy.

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  • Breakfast All Day @bfastallday.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2025

    Christy @christylemire.bsky.social and Alonso @aduralde.bsky.social review Jay Kelly, now in theaters on its way to Netflix #filmsky 📽

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  • Dave Karger @davekarger.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    What a pleasure to interview the ridiculously impressive cast of Jay Kelly, directed by Noah Baumbach, at a special screening of the film. It’s in theaters next month (and on Netflix in December) and it’ll remind you of everything from Preston Sturges to Cinema Paradiso. Just gorgeous.

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  • Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

    FFC #Telluride25 review: JAY KELLY, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

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  • Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Freddy Schramm, a creator known for his technical prop-making, 3D printed a completely wearable, fabric-free vest for the Netflix premiere of the film Jay Kelly. [📹 freddyprops] Original post

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  • kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2026

    And it's not just wrong about actually important things either. It is wrong about basically everything. Google's AI overview once told me that the Noah Baumbach-directed film Jay Kelly was directed by Kyle Soller. Kyle Soller is an actor who has a small scene in it where he plays a film director.

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  • Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 26, 2025

    I appreciated the meta quality to some of the casting in Jay Kelly. It's a movie about work-family balance in show business, and the cast includes the director's wife, Bono's daughter, Elvis's granddaughter, and a father and daughter playing father and daughter.

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  • bnacker @bnacker.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    Emma Mackey is Ella McCay. George Clooney is Jay Kelly. Soon every actor that can open a movie will play a titular character called what my mom thinks their name is

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  • Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2025

    JAY KELLY begins breaking box-office records today on its way to healing the world via Netflix. Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social) reviewed it at Telluride. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

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  • STARLOG Da7e Gonzales @da7e.comBluesky · Nov 1, 2025

    At the HOLIDAY theater for the DENVER FILM FESTIVAL. It’s Jay Kelly time. @kateyrich.bsky.social will be up there on Tuesday!

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  • Esther Zuckerman @ezwrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2025

    Jay Kelly is a movie that works on the magic trick that is George Clooney, but my god Billy Crudup gives an absolutely insane 10 minute performance

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  • John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.comBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    Venice Film Festival: Jay Kelly Baumbach hits his lowest with a Hollywood satire as biting as a handjob. Oscar bait performances, unbelievable situations & a patchy plot, the aesthetic of a Rolex advert and the humor of a Nespresso plug. Clooney plays Clooney and Sandler is the best of a bad lot.

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  • Devin @devincf.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    JAY KELLY isn't great but I do appreciate that the message of the movie seems to be that it's ok to be a bad dad if it's because you're making blockbuster 1997 motion picture THE PEACEMAKER.

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  • Phantomframe @phantomframe.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    I think the fonts they chose for the JAY KELLY poster is what’s really keeping me from seeing the film.

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  • Maureen Chuck @irmagherd.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    I just watched Jay Kelly starring George Clooney. I did not like it. It was like one big dream sequence and worst of all it was boring! The most engaging part was at the end when they had a montage of Jay Kelly / George Clooney movie clips & I was trying to name the real movies they were from.

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 7, 2025

    Among our movie mottos: Keep it positive Respect the art, respect the artists But these big boys can take the hit... Re Jay Kelly, we're w/ @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social: "gushes of Hollywood self-adoration" "an unbearable imposition on the audience’s affections" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

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Liz
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Jessica Kelly
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