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This is a piercingly honest, acidly witty look at divorce and its impact on a family.
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A wry exercise in acute observation and emotional distancing, Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale represents what's best in autobiographical filmmaking. January 5, 2006
A wry exercise in acute observation and emotional distancing, Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale represents what's best in autobiographical filmmaking.
Kirk Honeycutt
The Squid and the Whale is essentially about how we grow up by absorbing what is useful in our parents and forgiving what is not. December 6, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The Squid and the Whale is essentially about how we grow up by absorbing what is useful in our parents and forgiving what is not.
Roger Ebert
Don't look now, but Jeff Daniels' days as 'the other Jeff' may be coming to an end. November 23, 2005 | Rating: 4.5/5
Don't look now, but Jeff Daniels' days as 'the other Jeff' may be coming to an end.
Bill Muller
Hilarious, harrowing and heartbreaking, The Squid and the Whale is one of the best movies of the year. November 17, 2005 | Rating: A
Hilarious, harrowing and heartbreaking, The Squid and the Whale is one of the best movies of the year.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
It has the messiness of real life, with uncombed hair and unanswered questions. November 4, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
It has the messiness of real life, with uncombed hair and unanswered questions.
Moira MacDonald
A brutal study in distracted parenting. November 4, 2005 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A brutal study in distracted parenting.
Roger Moore
The film may offer a climb up Oscar's greasy pole for Eisenberg and Daniels. May 7, 2020 | Full Review…
The film may offer a climb up Oscar's greasy pole for Eisenberg and Daniels.
David Lamble
Beyond derivative, what The Squid and the Whale often feels like is a [Wes] Anderson film that has been filleted and its guts scooped out, leaving a hollow corpse behind. January 29, 2020 | Full Review…
Beyond derivative, what The Squid and the Whale often feels like is a [Wes] Anderson film that has been filleted and its guts scooped out, leaving a hollow corpse behind.
Felicia Feaster
Baumbach has created an unforgettable film about horrifyingly human people. July 9, 2019 | Full Review…
Baumbach has created an unforgettable film about horrifyingly human people.
Tyler Smith
Despite the acidic tone, The Squid and the Whale is a disarmingly funny film, one that offers a wealth of insight into the modern American family. June 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Despite the acidic tone, The Squid and the Whale is a disarmingly funny film, one that offers a wealth of insight into the modern American family.
Matthew Lucas
This is a warm, measured little ballad about the exquisitely sad whimsy of seeing the sanctity of your parent's union fall catastrophically down. November 3, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
This is a warm, measured little ballad about the exquisitely sad whimsy of seeing the sanctity of your parent's union fall catastrophically down.
PJ Nabarro
There is something intensely agreeable to me about a film of this kind. Its nervy characters, baffled by life and bruised by its disappointments; its picky dialogue; its gentle teasing, without condescension ... January 25, 2018 | Full Review…
There is something intensely agreeable to me about a film of this kind. Its nervy characters, baffled by life and bruised by its disappointments; its picky dialogue; its gentle teasing, without condescension ...
Olivia Glazebrook
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