Blue Jay Cinema Release Date

Instead of treating puppy love like child’s play, Blue Jay savors the fantasy of foundations built in adolescence, kindled while the heart is still young, and draws out the agon...

Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson take an affecting nostalgia trip in Blue Jay.

The Duplass-scripted dramedy breaks little new ground, but watching these performers flex their talents justifies the effort.

Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass shine in Blue Jay, a charming nostalgia trip tackling heady themes in a manner that is both lovingly awkward and brutally real.

“Blue Jay” is ultimately about the lingering intensity of young love, and the longing for the freedom that passion brings when it’s not attached to careers, children, or the wor...

Blue Jay poses important questions about adulthood without delving too far into concrete answers. That can be frustrating at times, but having its characters self-question and c...

Having said that, I’m a sucker for two-handers with performances this good. I always have been and I always will be. It’s probably my theatre background, or simply my adoration ...

Duplass and Paulson paint a cumulative portrait of the fragility and rareness of being truly in sync with a partner.

Mark Duplass and Sarah Paulson play high-school sweethearts who reunite unexpectedly in Alex Lehmann's black-and-white two-hander.

Cinematographer Alex Lehmann expresses the wholehearted romanticism of Blue Jay, his directorial debut, primarily through the nonverbal communication between Amanda (Sarah Pauls...

Nostalgia gives way to melodrama, and dramatic truth to soapy histrionics, and Blue Jay falters on a formulaic revelation about mistakes made and lessons learned too late.