Marriage Story shows how the sinews of a relationship remain, as the bones –the emotional connection that provides the real structure – melt away. This couple have a shared life, with a child and a mutual passion for theatre, but ultimately what they have not taken care of is their emotional connection.

The story ends with Charlie and Nicole embracing Henry and traveling down a road to the start of the new version of their family. One that is not filled with hate, but filled with a promising future for everyone involved.

This movie is not autobiographical; it's personal, and there's a true distinction in that." (Baumbach is also a child of divorce, which he wrote about in his 2005 film The Squid and the Whale.)

Marriage Story is more than just a career high for writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Meyerowitz Stories, The Squid and the Whale); it's a peerless showcase for its stars, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, who turn this tale of a contentious divorce into a "Kramer vs. Kramer" for the 21st century.