Split decision on this one. I always find the interplay of humans and dialog as quite interesting so I generally liked this movie for the characters of Joe Gould an troubled but gifted writer and Joe Mitchell the established NY magazine writer. In my opinion well acted and set well. My wife found it confusing and rather disjointed. Our two votes were 7 and 5 respectively so we compromised on 6. We would both recommend this movie however. See it and see what you think.