Does so much telling, and so little showing, that it’s hard not to walk away from the film feeling, frankly, talked down to.

The characters are broadly drawn and mostly broadly played, so much so that the film plays like a skit about clueless do-gooder liberals.

Gentle, interwoven tensions... hold When You Finish Saving the World together, albeit just barely.

Jesse Eisenberg’s feature directorial debut is muddled.