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'Marriage Story' review: Divorce, American style, showcasing Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in one of the year's finest achievements

Two songs from Stephen Sondheim's "Company" - "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," used as a party diversion, and "Being Alive," deployed as cathartic expression of discovery - make their entrance late in the game of "Marriage Story." But there's another Sondheim song from that score, one not used in writer-director Noah Baumbach's film, evoking the perplexation of the characters played by Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver even more fully.

It's "Sorry/Grateful." In "Company" it's sung by middle-aged men who have entered into the bargain of their own marriage stories and whose marriages, at least in most

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