Noah Bambauch makes it easy to dislike his films. Problem is, he also makes it easy for New York’s media elite to praise them.
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
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Reviews Counted:161
Fresh:83
Rotten:78
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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Reviews for Margot at the Wedding
Like Malcom's mustache, it's all "meant to be funny," though the effect is more like drowning.
10/05/07
There's no question Baumbach has a way with words and actors (Kidman, Leigh and Jack Black are terrific).
11/24/07
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09/15/07
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
This largely po-faced comedy drama has an annoying, self-congratulatory tone.
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
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10/18/08
When it comes to emotional violence, Margot at the Wedding is hard to beat.
11/16/07
Top CriticOnly an actress of Ms. Kidman’s stature, talent and proven magnetism could make her mercurial character bearable and watchable for the full 91 minutes of the film, in which she is in almost every scene.
11/14/07
Top CriticBrilliantly astringent ... To watch it is to see a filmmaker at the absolute top of his game, even if this particular game probably shouldn't be topped.
11/21/07
... written with enough wit and performed with enough skill that I found it impossible to turn away from the Zellers and their collective emotional train wreck.
12/21/07
Dramatically and visually, there's no relief to be had in this self-indulgent downer.
02/29/08
the one thing missing is a plot - and this time Baumbach's characters and their go-nowhere problems are just not engaging enough to carry us through an hour and a half of grating domestic narcissism.
02/07/08
Although the film's theme holds great potential, 'Margot at the Wedding' falters considerably in its presentation.
11/23/07
Busy, overdrawn, and working much too hard to get to its less than impressive point, Margot at the Wedding is entertainment as inference.
12/13/07
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10/18/08
A wonderful picture, informed with a powerful sense of honesty and comedy that that's so robust and exhilarating, it could cause whiplash.
11/16/07
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