{"id":2082848,"date":"2025-10-10T23:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2082848"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:26:14","slug":"is-this-thing-on-review-bradley-coopers-marriage-story-midlife-crisis-standup-movie-could-use-more-crisis-of-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/is-this-thing-on-review-bradley-coopers-marriage-story-midlife-crisis-standup-movie-could-use-more-crisis-of-its-own\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Is This Thing On?\u2019 Review: Bradley Cooper\u2019s \u2018Marriage Story\u2019 Midlife Crisis Standup Movie Could Use More Crisis of Its Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI think we need to call it,\u201d Tess (Laura Dern<\/a>) tells Alex (Will Arnett<\/a>), standing over the bathroom sink while brushing her teeth, a serious ask embedded in a moment of profound mundanity. She\u2019s referring to their marriage, which, more than 20 years in and with two small children between them, has run its course. Tess, a former Olympic volleyball player, and Alex might not be unhappy with their marriage, but they\u2019re certainly not happy in their marriage, or in their own lives creatively or professionally. Their split spurs Alex\u2019s unconventional midlife crisis, one without fancy muscle cars or a hot young babe on the arm.<\/p>\n

That crisis is the foundation of Bradley Cooper<\/a>\u2019s blandly reassuring, at times tedious and tunnel-visioned new directorial effort \u201cIs This Thing On?\u201d That midlife crisis also involves a hairpin career pivot, and no, I\u2019m not talking about Cooper<\/a>\u2019s move into directing,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI think we need to call it,\u201d Tess (Laura Dern) tells Alex (Will Arnett), standing over the bathroom sink while brushing her teeth, a serious ask embedded in a moment of profound mundanity. She\u2019s referring to their marriage, which, more than 20 years in and with two small children between them, has run its course. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2082848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018Is-This-Thing-On-Review-Bradley-Coopers-\u2018Marriage-Story-Midlife.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082850,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082848\/revisions\/2082850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}