Throughout the course of her steadily exceptional career, writer-director Nicole Holofcener (“Enough Said,” “Walking and Talking”) has established herself as a peerless master of observation, exquisitely attuned to human foibles and frailty.
“The Land of Steady Habits,” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this week and debuts on Netflix Sept. 14, shifts away from her usual POV — compulsively self-sabotaging women — and offers instead the perspective of, well, compulsively self-sabotaging men.
Her approach, however, remains the same: both minutely unsparing and generously empathetic. (For what it’s worth, this description applies equally well to the excellent festival biopic “Can You Ever Forgive Me,” which Holofcener co-wrote and Marielle Heller directed.)