Artistic self-involvement has seldom been more unappealingly portrayed.
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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
An ensemble cast of Kidman, Leigh, Black and Turturro-who should all know better, got together to compete for the worst family member of a bickering, insufferable clan. But isn't yucky family life what people run to the movies to get away from?
12/29/07
I could never decide whether I hated this movie or the people in it, and wound up splitting the difference.
12/24/07
Like Margot herself, the film is contrived and self-conscious and perhaps not entirely aware of its alienating effect; yet beneath the clever surface squirms something damaged and real.
12/21/07
f you can imagine Woody Allen and Neil LaBute collaborating on a screenplay - and imagine enjoying the resultant film - then Margot might be for you.
12/21/07
... 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
The odiousness of [Baumbach's] protagonists ... isn't as problematic a factor as is the redundancy (and occasional mean-spiritedness) of his psychological portraits.
12/20/07
An at-times grueling, dysfunctional family comedy-drama that is not for the emotionally squeamish.
12/20/07
As uncomfortable an experience as the film often is, it's never less than fascinating.
12/20/07
For all its supposed dramatic heft, Margot at the Wedding ultimately proves to be as weighty as cake frosting.
12/20/07
If "Margot at the Wedding" had come to the fore with something interesting to say about corrupt families and sibling rivalry, which is the movie it wants to be, we might have had something here.
12/19/07
A self-indulgent, self-aware, and smug piece of crap and possibly one of the worst of 2007...
12/15/07
Kidman's performance keeps you transfixed all the way through, because she delves into her character's damaged psyche so fully, you're constantly fascinated to see what biting, acidic thing she will say next.
12/14/07
Margot at the Wedding is a good film that’s painful to sit through, and Margot is a protagonist who’s virtually sympathy-free.
12/14/07
Apart from John Turturro in a cameo, all the characters are monsters and/or basket cases.
12/14/07
Top CriticIt’s clear that Margot is a troubled soul in some kind of terrible pain, but the film does little to depict her as anything but a pushy, judgmental, and overly critical human being.
12/14/07
Margot at the Wedding is a Christmas gift for high-class depressives: a compendium of malaise fit for an L.L. Bean catalog.
12/14/07
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
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
Baumbach is not interested in weddings or preparations for weddings. He is not interested in much else but throwing his audience into the fire and giving us that dirty, nasty taste of family dysfunction in all its seething glory.
12/13/07
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