Magnetic, subtly tragic and ultimatley sympathetic, worth a watch if only to remind yourself why you don't go home for Christmas anymore.
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02/29/08
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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
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
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
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
The defining metaphor of Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's dysfunctional-family seriocomedy, is a battle-scarred Volvo with faulty brakes.
11/20/07
Top Critica smart and honestly ugly film, with well-toned dialogue and an acute understanding of neurotic compulsion... a minor piece of work
11/15/07
It's the sort of all-talk, all-neurotic movie that will infuriate some people, but I found the conversations vivid and powerful.
11/21/07
Writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to "Squid and the Whale" is a sophisticated satire that takes hilarious and accurate aim at the not-so-squishy belly of American family life where narcissistic psychosexual games are played out with shameless imme
12/02/07
If you enjoy seeing people at their passive-aggressive worst, the verbal sword fights between the sisters will tickle your black heart.
11/20/07
Baumbach’s interest in families – a distinct Baumbachian sort of family – is acute and his observations often painful and delivered with a dry wit.
02/28/08
Baumbach's closely observed tale of dysfunctional family relationships has the microscopic texture of a New Yorker short story and the darting, spontaneous style of a French New Wave movie.
11/16/07
Top CriticYou can spot the signature Baumbachisms in every cringe-humor exchange, yet his skills as a writer and wrangler of actors have increased tenfold.
11/14/07
A bracing family drama that is appealing only in a disturbing way because its characters make hardly any attempt to be appealing... .
11/27/07
Doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor but it is still an often painfully accurate study of fractured family relationships.
02/29/08
Margot is all mood swings and cries for help that everyone can hear except the person making them. It is Squid sapped of empathy and desperate for love.
12/13/07
There are laughs here, and a fair amount of insight. I just wish Baumbach had something new to bring to the table.
11/29/07
Do you need to have likeable characters to have a good movie? No, and especially not when the characters embody scary traits that are so familiar but so little explored.
11/30/07
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