The Only Living Boy in New York

A college grad (Callum Turner) slouches around lower Manhattan, scorning his privileged Park Avenue upbringing and wondering what to do with his life; when he learns that his father (Pierce Brosnan) has a mistress, he shadows the woman (Kate Beckinsale)—but she confronts him and virtually invites him to seduce her, which he does. Observing it all is the young man’s rumpled, boozy neighbor (Jeff Bridges). Echoes of 1967’s The Graduate and the works of Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, and Sundance TV abound, but Allan Loeb’s script still has a few surprises for us, and Loeb synthesizes all those elements into a personality of its own. Marc Webb’s direction is crisp and knowing, drawing fine performances all around – including from Kiersey Clemons as Turner’s best friend and Cynthia Nixon as his doting mother. J.L.