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Despite a great cast, the characters in Margot at the Wedding are too unlikable to enthrall viewers.
Average Rating: 6/10
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Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 13
Despite a great cast, the characters in Margot at the Wedding are too unlikable to enthrall viewers.
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Margot at the Wedding, writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Squid and the Whale, stars Nicole Kidman as Margot, a woman who travels with her son to the wedding of her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The relationship between the two siblings has never been harmonious, a situation that is exacerbated when Margot discovers she cares very little for her sister's fiancé (Jack Black). Soon the high-strung Margot escalates a feud between her sister and the neighbors, and
Nov 21, 2007 Wide
Feb 19, 2008
$1.9M
Paramount Vantage
All Critics (171) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (81) | DVD (14)
Apart from John Turturro in a cameo, all the characters are monsters and/or basket cases.
There isn't a pleasant, wholly likable character in the cast. But you can't avert your eyes from it.
Writer-director Noah Baumbach solidifies his standing as the modern bard of American dysfunctional families with Margot at the Wedding, but at the same time he's recycling material he's already covered, and covered more exquisitely.
Kidman's Toxic Narcissist Drives Bracing 'Margot at the Wedding'
There's no question Baumbach has a way with words and actors (Kidman, Leigh and Jack Black are terrific).
These characters don't seem illuminating at all -- just damned annoying and, ultimately, dead boring.
Who the hell names their son Claude? Do they want him to get beat up every day of his life?
The results aren't bruising, just numbing
Noah Baumbach’s entry into the dysfunctional-family sweepstakes is a successfully depressing affair that has some genuine laughs to maintain interest while the fake relationships that dominate every scene leave the viewer as estranged as the char
The raw, real centerpiece is the relationship between Kidman and Leigh, whose performances drive the film.
No one does bad parent movies better than Noah Baumbach.
Well-acted tale of crushing family dysfunction.
El único rasgo de humanidad y convicción lo aporta la exquisita Jennifer Jason Leigh, cuya sola presencia justifica darle una oportunidad a una película por demás fría, irritante y olvidable.
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
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?
Doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor but it is still an often painfully accurate study of fractured family relationships.
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.
This film is in my favorite genre: dark humored, pointless, character driven films. Noah Baumbach is one of my favorite writer/directors, and in this story of a strung out writer at her sister's wedding and all the family dysfunction that goes along with it, the film writes itself with its strong characters and gritty
October 18, 2010Super Reviewer
Nicole Kidman has fleshed out some excellent roles throughout her career in some great films, namely; "To Die For" "Dogville" and most recently "Rabbit Hole" but this is also one for her vintage collection of characters. She plays moderately successful novelist Margot Zeller who has taken her son Claude (Zane Pais) to
February 18, 2011Super Reviewer
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