Don't understand the low reviews here

Rating: 9/10 (16 February 2020)

The main criticism that this film seems to be getting from the other reviewers here is that the script itself is boring. I just can't wrap my head around why this is what people are criticizing it for. The story wasn't meant to be an exciting on the edge of your seat thriller. It's an incredibly emotional and dramatic story that plays way more on what isn't said that what is. Baumbach paints us a painfully real couple watching the downfall of their marriage. Trying to maintain their own individuality while also balancing being part of a family. Balancing their dreams with those of the people closest to them.
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson both greatly exceeded all expectations and provided an incredibly real feeling that isn't easily obtained. By the end of it, it doesn't feel like you're watching two actors, it feels like you're really witnessing Charlie and Nicole try to figure out their lives.
Highlight scenes were: Courtroom scene, Fight scene, Charlie accidentally cutting himself, Nicole's monoluge to the lawyer, and my personal favorite scene; Charlie singing "Being Alive"
I seriously could talk about Charlie's singing scene for hours, it blew me away, and it pains me that some of the other reviewers here were not able to feel the same emotion from it that I felt. "Being Alive" is a famous broadway number from a showed called Company. The show focuses on marriage and the pitfalls associated with it, culminating with Robert singing "Being Alive", vocally capturing the effect that finding love can have on our lives. He acknowledges the good and the bad, but mostly the impact that it can have and the way it can make you really feel alive. Charlie singing this in front of all of his friends is absolutely genius and it's scenes like this that make me fall in love with writing again and again. Charlie, a self-made director who's entire life and career is built on just how much he loves theater, and you can tell from the way he speaks the dialogue parts that he knows this play well. His singing is the perfect mix of: someone clearly involved in the arts who's knowledgeable about singing, but also someone who clearly isn't a singer. He's still just the director and he'll never be the lead actor. The pain in his voice and emotion he is able to deliver in just that scene, for me, makes the movie one of the most emotionally moving movies I've ever watched as well as places it up there with some of the greatest dramas to ever come out of the movie industry.
Overall, I highly recommend this film. Don't go into this film expecting to just enjoy the story and move on with your day, you have to embrace every aspect of it. Let the emotion of the main characters sink into you. Allow yourself to feel their pain. Let this movie capture your emotions and it will change how you look at drama for ever.