The raw, real centerpiece is the relationship between Kidman and Leigh, whose performances drive the film.
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12/27/08
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 158
Fresh: 81
Rotten:77
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Consensus: Despite a great cast, the characters in Margot at the Wedding are too unlikable to enthrall viewers.
Theatrical Release:2007-11
Box Office: $1,929,081
Synopsis: Writer-director Noah Baumbach follows up his Oscar-nominated THE SQUID AND THE WHALE with another bitingly funny and painfully honest dissection of family life. This time around, the topic is... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, Ciaran Hinds
Director: Noah Baumbach
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10/18/08
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10/18/08
No one does bad parent movies better than Noah Baumbach.
09/08/08
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08/07/08
a dysfunctional family portrait that, at best, shows how far sisterly bonds can stretch without breaking. At worst, it demonstrates what happens when a writer with nothing to say continues to produce after his supply of bio fuel is exhausted
03/17/08
Noah Baumbach is the king of dysfunction. We constantly see films about war, love, aliens, so why no films about how insanely uncomfortable family can be with one another?
03/04/08
Enjoyably spiky family drama with a sharply written script and strong performances from its two leads.
02/29/08
Doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor but it is still an often painfully accurate study of fractured family relationships.
02/29/08
Of course, we get nothing so false as an “emotional journey” for anyone. But as the film abruptly ends, you can’t help feeling a little less ice would go a long way.
02/29/08
Top CriticDramatically and visually, there's no relief to be had in this self-indulgent downer.
02/29/08
There is such a thing as binge pessimism. It happens when one living disaster area, considered insufficient in a story, is served up with several others, causing audience braincells to swirl, stagger and collide against thalamic lampposts.
02/29/08
Never fully coheres or convinces.
02/29/08
This largely po-faced comedy drama has an annoying, self-congratulatory tone.
02/29/08
Top CriticHumourless (though supposedly a comedy) and pretentious, almost a parody of the self-indulgent Sundance festival film, right down to the washed-out colours, droning dialogue and the title in big sans-serif capitals.
02/29/08
Some of the dialogue is well-crafted and the performances are generally strong (although Black hams shamelessly at times) but the characters are so loathsome that you long for a hurricane to sweep away this wedding party.
02/29/08
Magnetic, subtly tragic and ultimatley sympathetic, worth a watch if only to remind yourself why you don't go home for Christmas anymore.
02/29/08
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