Festival de Venecia: Adam Sandler es lo mejor de 'Jay Kelly'
La segunda jornada del Festival de Venecia era un día marcado con rojo en el calendario. Hoy se han visto por primera vez 'Bugonia' (podéis leer las primeras reacciones aquí), 'Caza de brujas' (el embargo se levanta mañana) y 'Jay Kelly'. La nueva película de Noah Baumbach llegaba precedida por un 'buzz' muy positivo pero su recepción en Venecia ha sido mucho más tibia de lo esperado. George Clooney, en un papel que tiene mucho de autobiográfico, aspira a volver a los Oscar 14 años después de su última candidatura como intérprete. Sin embargo, algunos apuntan que la verdadera estrella de la función es el nunca nominado Adam Sandler. La química entre Clooney y Sandler parece innegable pero el guion y el tono excesivamente sentimental de la película no han convencido tanto. 'Jay Kelly' ha debutado con un 83% de críticas positivas en Rotten Tomatoes.
#JayKelly beautifully blends melancholia & whimsy in an introspective journey through regret, the choices that define us & become ghosts of who we could've been.
— Ren Geekness (@RenGeekness) August 28, 2025
A phenomenal Clooney & Sandler share heartfelt chemistry in a soulful ode to the bonds we so often forget to cherish. pic.twitter.com/HdRdLdy168
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.
— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) August 28, 2025
my review: https://t.co/2us79qGrWe pic.twitter.com/L03EDq0QLY
I didn’t know exactly what to expect from JAY KELLY but it ended up being everything I needed—and easily one of my favourite films of the year. It’s heartfelt, funny ans about what it means to be yourself (or even how to learn to be yourself) while reflecting on your past—because… pic.twitter.com/bXSHsbBpnF
— Mar (@_martremblay) August 28, 2025
Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly is pure movie magic in both what it’s saying and how it’s been made. George Clooney takes us by the hand in gentle yet effortlessly charismatic performance as the A-list actor Jay Kelly who laments on his past choices and the price of his fame. Baumbach… pic.twitter.com/w1xZ1OykSI
— Luke Hearfield @ Venice (@LukeHearfield) August 28, 2025
JAY KELLY represents a marked evolution for Baumbach’s filmmaking, and is bolstered by great performances. But the narrative is a sluggish and tedious chore, with an episodic structure that stunts momentum and thematically shallow observations. Sandler is wonderful. Best in show. pic.twitter.com/7z6OWcKWAQ
— Josh Parham (@JRParham) August 28, 2025
JAY KELLY: Clooney and Sandler are wonderful in Baumbach’s warm (and beautifully shot) examination of Hollywood stardom, but Billy Crudup gives the single-scene performance of the year.
— David Canfield (@davidcanfield97) August 28, 2025
