Where Baumbach is preferable—for me, at least—is that his movies are about families. Granted, these are families in crisis, but they at least feel like people you might know, not because of how they live, but because of how they talk. When things are going badly, we all aspire to rise above the moment and be a better version of ourselves. Alas, that usually doesn’t happen. We end up saying things we regret and doing things we later find embarrassing. We end up being disappointed in ourselves and how we handled those moments. That’s the part that Baumbach nails perfectly.