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    Movie review: The funny, moving 'Meyerowitz Stories' delves into intricate dynamics of family

    by By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2017 3 minutes

    Family. Love it or leave it, or both. No group is closer, yet no group drives people crazier, causing them to feel like complete outsiders. It both hurts and makes it possible for us to heal.

    Funny, moving and psychologically complex, "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)" is the latest examination by writer-director Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale," "While We're Young") of the intricate paradoxes of dysfunctional family dynamics, and it ranks with the best.

    Starring an uncompromising Dustin Hoffman as a self-important sacred monster father and Ben

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