It's a fine script that is beautifully realised by its top cast, although emotionally it falls short; I never felt anything for Margot.
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02/14/08
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
51 %
Reviews Counted: 156 Fresh: 80 Rotten:76 Average Rating: 5.6/10
Consensus:
Despite a great cast, the characters in Margot at the Wedding are too unlikable to enthrall viewers.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
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 sisterhood. Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her adolescent son Claude (Zane Pais) take a train from... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, Ciaran Hinds, John Turturro
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a dysfunctional family portrait that, at best, shows how far sisterly bonds can stretch without breaking. At worst, it demonstrates what happens when a writer with nothing to say continues to produce after his supply of bio fuel is exhausted
03/17/08
Noah Baumbach is the king of dysfunction. We constantly see films about war, love, aliens, so why no films about how insanely uncomfortable family can be with one another?
03/04/08
Enjoyably spiky family drama with a sharply written script and strong performances from its two leads.
02/29/08
Doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor but it is still an often painfully accurate study of fractured family relationships.
02/29/08
Of course, we get nothing so false as an “emotional journey” for anyone. But as the film abruptly ends, you can’t help feeling a little less ice would go a long way.
02/29/08
Dramatically and visually, there's no relief to be had in this self-indulgent downer.
02/29/08
There is such a thing as binge pessimism. It happens when one living disaster area, considered insufficient in a story, is served up with several others, causing audience braincells to swirl, stagger and collide against thalamic lampposts.
02/29/08
This largely po-faced comedy drama has an annoying, self-congratulatory tone.
02/29/08
Humourless (though supposedly a comedy) and pretentious, almost a parody of the self-indulgent Sundance festival film, right down to the washed-out colours, droning dialogue and the title in big sans-serif capitals.
02/29/08
Top Critic
Some of the dialogue is well-crafted and the performances are generally strong (although Black hams shamelessly at times) but the characters are so loathsome that you long for a hurricane to sweep away this wedding party.
02/29/08
Top Critic
Magnetic, subtly tragic and ultimatley sympathetic, worth a watch if only to remind yourself why you don't go home for Christmas anymore.
02/29/08
With superb acting and great dialogue, this acerbic comic drama has some excellent moments, but it too often feels like being on an enforced holiday with people you'd rather not spend any time with.
02/29/08
A big-name cast including Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh wrestles with a storyline containing industrial-sized quantities of misery and a plot that leaves too many loose ends hanging.
02/29/08
Emotional car-crash cinema at its best, packed with characters you’d hate to meet but who are riveting to watch. Baumbach’s barbed cynicism won’t be to everyone’s taste, but those still suffering the aftermath of a family Christmas will grin in grim recog
02/28/08
Those expecting fresh Squid will be disappointed. With few laughs and much whining, Margot takes the fun out of dysfunctional. It’s a damp squib with lots of wail.
02/28/08
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
A sharply observed but bleak examination of family dysfunction, anchored by solid performances.
02/28/08
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