I wish the film was a bit more tightly edited, but also can see how the filmmakers wanted to stress every How this scheme to rescue a group of kidnapped Americans in Iran plays out was both incredibly fun and

Wednesday night I was fortunate to have tickets to the delightful Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig collaboration Mistress America. Both resonate and are incredibly funny, but Mistress is kinda breezy while Dying Girl is more weighty What I love most about Mistress America is that these characters seem lived-in.

Instead, I'd pick to have far more of the silly 8-year-old brother of her American suitor.