'Fallout' is acknowledging its hero’s age, and something else that’s often eluded these movies: a sense of history. Sure, they’ll call back to the Langley heist (usually as a point of comparison to whatever difficult extraction they’re attempting next), but the new film is full of little shout-outs to the earlier pictures: a character linked to Vanessa Redgrave’s Max from the first film, an ingenious scene that recalls that picture’s cold open, a key moment in which Ethan must call…

“In one instant, her behaviors turned from charming to borderline psychotic.” So notes Tracy (Kirke) of Brooke (Gerwig), the title character of Noah Baumbach’s latest chronicle of the bohemian facades and generational navigation in New York City. Free of much of the cynicism but none of the bite of last spring’s 'While We’re Young,' Baumbach and co-writer Gerwig’s screwball treat beautifully captures the way a slightly older, seemingly together mentor-type figure can first seem to be everything you hope to…