Noah Baumbach Knows What You're Thinking

NEW YORK — Noah Baumbach knows how it looks. The director, 50, has a new movie out, “Marriage Story,” that seems, on the surface, very “Noah Baumbach.” There are the usual Baumbauch-ian characters — artistic, bourgeois, alternately sympathetic and repellent — caught in scenarios that feel naturalistic to the point of suspicion, as if torn from the pages of an unsparing notebook. In “Kicking and Screaming” (1995), made shortly after he’d graduated from Vassar, his subject was 20-somethings fre...