There is a rawness to the characterization in this lacerating film that pushes family drama right to the edge.
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11/21/07
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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
Top CriticBaumbach's follow-up to The Squid and the Whale contains all of that film's self-involved screw-ups, but this time he provides little reason to bother watching aside from taking in Kidman's rather astounding ability to scramble up a tall oak tree.
11/21/07
The 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
No matter how awful you might think your parents or siblings, Baumbach can write a character that makes them look like angels.
11/21/07
Margot at the Wedding is a story told from a perspective that's as viciously condescending and critical as Margot's own worldview.
11/21/07
proof a movie with too much talking is a good thing when you have great dialogue, characters and actors
11/21/07
Family dysfunction has its own language ... and writer-director Noah Baumbach is proving to be the movie master of just such linguistics.
11/21/07
Baumbach’s achievement stings. It also has the sureness of tone and direction of a Chekhov story.
11/21/07
Top CriticA wry, devastatingly witty look at a family you won't soon forget, no matter how hard you try.
11/21/07
If you sat through Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale" and felt that the characters were just too cuddly and charming for your tastes, then his latest effort, "Margot At the Wedding," should be right up your alley.
11/20/07
Shooting with a handheld camera that stays just slightly aloof from the uneasy atmosphere, [Noah] Baumbach creates a vivid and nuanced sense of this family's dynamics.
11/20/07
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
Because the nastiness is all surface, it makes the characters seem unlikable.
11/20/07
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 CriticMargot at the Wedding is an excellent film that few people will see, and even fewer will like.
11/20/07
Top CriticIt might be impossible to love the characters Baumbach gives us here, but they're always worth watching.
11/19/07
Noah Baumbach knows his way around an honest exploration of family and friendship and Margot serves to reinforce the point.
11/19/07
It just becomes dreary and repetitive.
11/19/07
Top CriticEverything feels very random, and not in an 'oh, that's the way life goes' collection of events. It's more in an 'I can't think of anything that would happen so I'll just throw something in there' kind of way.
11/17/07
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