There's a long stretch of Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry's caustic and Rothian examination of a caustic and Rothian writer played by Jason Schwartzman, in which the film digresses from its main plot in order to focus on the life of Philip's ex-girlfriend, Ashley. The sequence is easily the best part of the film, in part because Elisabeth Moss' performance provides a nice break from the Great Male Writer dick-swinging of the rest of the film, and as a way of illustrating just how toxic it is be to share your life with the aforementioned dick-swingers. As much as I liked the rest of the film, I found myself wishing that Moss was actually the star, and that the whole film could be just about Ashley dealing with the aftermath of her relationship with Philip.