A wonderful film about existential post graduation identity crisis, led by an perfectly and inexorably awkward performance by Dustin Hoffman...

Rating: 10/10 (10 February 2020)

...playing the type of character we all know, may have met, may even have been sometimes or for some reasons, but that is rarely committed to film with such fervour and knowing and dedication; the little noises and line readings, the evolution, the angst and the depression are all in his eyes and his mannerisms.
And if that wasn't enough to make the film so watchable and so funny and rife with pathos, Mike Nichols is the kind of Director from a school and a time when the work could be analysed completely; every frame and every move and every decision means something so simple and so powerful that it's a joy to watch all the way to the iconic and painful and sympathetic ending.