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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:20
Rotten:12
Average Rating: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
Top CriticApart from John Turturro in a cameo, all the characters are monsters and/or basket cases.
12/14/07
Top CriticWriter-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.
12/07/07
Top CriticThere's no question Baumbach has a way with words and actors (Kidman, Leigh and Jack Black are terrific).
11/24/07
Top CriticThese characters don't seem illuminating at all -- just damned annoying and, ultimately, dead boring.
11/23/07
Top CriticMargot at the Wedding is Noah Baumbach's best yet.
11/21/07
Top CriticThere is a rawness to the characterization in this lacerating film that pushes family drama right to the edge.
11/21/07
Top CriticThe characters are into emotional laceration for fun. They are verbal, articulate, self-absorbed, selfish, egotistical, cold and fascinating. They've never felt an emotion they couldn't laugh at.
11/21/07
Top CriticMargot at the Wedding is a broader work than Baumbach's last movie, and it's funnier, too, even as you gasp at the misbehavior.
11/21/07
Top CriticBaumbach’s achievement stings. It also has the sureness of tone and direction of a Chekhov story.
11/21/07
Top CriticIf you enjoy seeing people at their passive-aggressive worst, the verbal sword fights between the sisters will tickle your black heart.
11/20/07
Top CriticThe 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 CriticMargot at the Wedding is an excellent film that few people will see, and even fewer will like.
11/20/07
Top CriticIt just becomes dreary and repetitive.
11/19/07
Top CriticBaumbach'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 CriticIn its sharp characters and unexpected moods, Margot at the Wedding is something like a small gift for audiences.
11/16/07
Top CriticI've had root canals that were more enjoyable than Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's hugely pretentious, ugly and annoying follow-up to The Squid and the Whale.
11/16/07
Top CriticMargot has no sense of balance, or nuance, or even mitigating psychological weight.
11/16/07
Top CriticWhen it comes to emotional violence, Margot at the Wedding is hard to beat.
11/16/07
Top CriticA parade of uninteresting characters cruelly betraying one another without motivation.
11/15/07
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