 Movie ReviewsRating: 4 of 5 yaps  Liberal Arts  A casual,
breezy drama/comedy from writer/director/star Josh Radnor,
“Liberal Arts” is a bit of an odd bird: it’s an exploration of
the pre-midlife crisis.  Jesse Fisher (Josh Radnor) is in his
mid-30s, living in New York City. He’s by all accounts an
intelligent, at least moderately successful single man, but
feels overwhelmed by the dreariness of life, the endless parties
and laundry and bills, and wonders what happened to all of his
dreams.  When he gets a call from one of his old teachers
(Richard Jenkins, “Cabin in the Woods”) asking him to come to
his retirement party, Jesse travels to Ohio to reconnect with
the life he left behind.  There he meets Zibby (Elizabeth
Olson), a flighty, pretty sophomore who gives Jesse flashbacks
of the way he used to be, and a host of characters who are
experiencing the same thing Jesse is, leaving him wondering why
they are lamenting what should be the best time of their lives.
Face it: this isn’t the kind of movie that i