Noah Baumbach has directed 13 films and notched four Academy Award nominations. His newest film, Jay Kelly, is a celebration of Hollywood—its studios, its system, its stars. It is also a movie he wanted to have fun making, a feeling he’d lost for a while. “It’s hard to write something and say, I’m going to fall in love with movies again,” Baumbach recently told The New Yorker. “I mean, it could have not paid off.” But when you have George Clooney playing a movie star, and Adam Sandler as his manager, you’re already halfway there. —Maggie Turner