But the fans of the house party sequences won't take to the slower ending that ties up all of the pieces. (oracleoffilm.com)
Baumbach's usual novelistic attention to detail is everywhere: the late - night hook - ups, the LACMA decal on the fridge, the hose twirling in the pool, the desultory walks through the canyons, the great screwed - up birthday scene at Musso & Frank's, climaxing with a riveting and devastating party sequence in which Roger does coke with a group of Millennials and attacks their values. (filmcomment.com)
As with their upcoming Frailty disc, Lions Gate includes the Sundance Channel's «Anatomy of a Scene» special on the birthday - party sequence from The Cat's Meow (24 mins.) (filmfreakcentral.net)