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Margot at the Wedding
2008
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Margot at the Wedding
Positive Reviews
47
Negative reviews
13
Average Rating
3.2
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1.5
At first, the spacy Pauline isnt very likable either; she appears to deserve a sister like Margot.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
Rather surprisingly, nearly all delve into fairly earnest discussions of spirituality, and unsurprisingly, theres a lot of sex talk and sexism here, t ..
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Whatever Baumbachs intentions, the inaccessible Margot is little more than a big question mark in the end.
Austin Chronicle
3.8
The characters are into emotional laceration for fun. They are verbal, articulate, self absorbed, selfish, egotistical, cold and fascinating. Theyve n ..
Rogerebert
4.5
Baumbach works his cinema verite muscles to a point of soreness, but the effort results in an unexpected delight.
E Film Critic
4.0
It might be impossible to love the characters Baumbach gives us here, but theyre always worth watching, if only for the excellent actors who bring the ..
Cinema Blend
2.5
But Margot has barely arrived when she begins opening old wounds.
Ny Daily News
3.8
Some call Margot a comedy.For me, it is a tragedy impaled by comic moments.
Philly
3.2
Its a tricky thing to put this type of behavior on display without alienating the audience, and Baumbach doesnt always succeed this time around.
Philly
4.0
Pauline has never been able to forgive her for bringing down her first marriage by dissecting it in a story.Margot at the Wedding is a rambunctious fo ..
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
A bracing family drama that is appealing only in a disturbing way because its characters make hardly any attempt to be appealing or mask their emotion ..
Sover
2.5
Its a shame to see such dedicated performers flay their psyches in the service of such fundamentally shallow material.
Tv Guide
3.1
Still, the film has its moments, mainly in finding a place for Jack Blacks off kilter performance style.
Combust Ible Celluloid
0.5
This movie has characters so obnoxious that even some critics who believe audiences deserve punishment are re evaluating their theories about whether ..
Lariat
3.2
There are laughs here, and a fair amount of insight. I just wish Baumbach had something new to bring to the table.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Dont worry: Baumbach is more afraid of mawkish melodrama than you areso much so that his dark, funny movie seems a little proud of being so biting.
News Review
4.0
This sometimes abrasive approach allows the cast to deliver startlingly off handed performances.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
In particular, the climax fails to deliver the emotional punch that youre expecting.In short, this is an enjoyable drama thats worth seeing for the pe ..
View London
3.5
But Baumbach rarely lets the scenes between the women play out satisfyingly the sequences are either too abrupt or endless.
Cs Monitor
3.0
Seriously, if you thought the bickering Brooklyn family at the center of Baumbachs last film, The Squid and the Whale, was insufferable, you aint seen ..
Film Journal
2.0
The movie has a good cast and occasional flashes of humor and insight, but nothing ever comes of it.
Mountain X
3.8
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Star Tribune
2.8
The film is uneven.The first reel, with its sharp dialogue and strong humor, is wonderful, before the film escalates to a more conventional family mel ..
Emanuellevy
3.5
Its not easy to watch Margot at the Wedding, nor can I recommend it to anyone except Kidman and Black fans.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.2
Can the filmmaker ever go home again.The parents and children, lovers and cheaters who wound one another here are a glossy subset of Leo Tolstoys univ ..
Ew
2.5
Twelve year old newcomer Zane Pais is wonderfully affecting as Margots awkward sonyou want to rush the screen and offer him bus fare to escape this dr ..
Slate
3.0
There is no doubting Baumbachs craft and talent, yet equally it is impossible to escape the fact that at times this is a film to be endured, rather th ..
Empire
2.5
Yet the one thing missing is a plot and this time Baumbachs characters and their go nowhere problems are just not engaging enough to carry us through ..
Eye For Film
3.0
Difficult to watch and easier to appreciate than enjoy, Margot At The Wedding might seem misanthropic, but its actually just painfully honest.
Bbc
3.8
Short and brisk are probably the last words one would think of when it comes to the directing work of Robert Redford, but thats exactly what the lates ..
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
By this point the viewer knows what is bound to happen next, but the lack of mobility and growth in these characters souls is frustrating and kind of ..
The Movie Boy
3.0
Unfortunately, a movie depends on a lot more than its performances.
Bullz-Eye
2.8
Kidman is fascinating to watch but her character is akin to fingernails scraping across a chalkboard.Better luck next time for Noah Baumbach.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
Seemingly random subplots concerning nasty neighbors and confused children will go unresolved.
Flickfilosopher
4.0
The style doesnt allow for any actorly sloppiness, and Baumbach gets excellent work out of his cast in sometimes unexpected ways.
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
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Total Film
2.5
In and of itself, some of the dialogue is enjoyable but its sound and fury signifying nothing.
ReelViews
3.8
The cinematic style may put some viewers off but it certainly works for the story.
Hollywood
1.9
The end result is a movie thats agreeable enough yet utterly forgettable, and its inclusion within the festival is undeniably somewhat baffling.
Reel Film
3.8
Needless to say, this is not the stuff of what conventionally passes for family entertainment, despite the fact that Baumbachs form of no holds barred ..
The Star
3.1
An at times grueling, dysfunctional family comedy drama that is not for the emotionally squeamish.
Deseret News
3.5
Its a fine script that is beautifully realised by its top cast, although emotionally it falls short.
Urban Cine File
3.0
Ms. Kidman, who can liven up a reading of the phone book, doesnt quite bring enough icing for the cake to make her visit, and this film, particularly ..
Varia Gate
1.3
IVE had root canals that were more enjoyable than Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbachs hugely pretentious, ugly and annoying follow up to The Squid a ..
New York Post
1.9
But despite all of these strengths, it will leave audiences feeling like they just paid ten bucks to swallow a cup of cold gravel.
Christianity Today
5.0
Writer/director Noah Baumbach doesnt give us a movie centered on a plot, but an intricate, maddening, hilarious and heartbreaking character study full ..
Waffle Movies
3.5
Margot at the Wedding is as personal as Beowulf is impersonal: it follows its characters where they take the story, with no concern for genre expectat ..
News Week
2.0
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3.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
1.0
The Squid and the Whale was terrific because it was relaxed, funny and taken from life, but this just sounds as if it was developed in some encounter ..
Film Guardian
3.8
Kidman is utterly convincing and fearlessly funny.This is one movie where you dont need to feel any shame for laughing at the characters, especially s ..
Scene Stealers
3.5
Wes Anderson did.Too much misery is finally just too much misery, no matter how amusingly perturbed these people are.
East Bay Express
2.8
There isnt a single truly likeable character in Noah Baumbachs Margot at the Wedding, and there are quite a few that are downright intolerable.
Nicks Chager
2.0
Everything feels very random, and not in an oh, thats the way life goes collection of events. Its more in an I cant think of anything that would happe ..
Can Mag
3.8
Shooting with a handheld camera that stays just slightly aloof from the uneasy atmosphere, Baumbach creates a vivid and nuanced sense of this familys ..
Stream On Demand At Home
3.8
Completely willing to alienate its audience through prolonged exposure to its unlikable, but human, cast of characters, the movie plows past its initi ..
Movie Martyr
1.0
While Anderson wants to be Truffaut, the title of Margot at the Wedding shows that Baumbach is going after Rohmer, whose incisive generosity could mak ..
Cine Passion
3.5
Writer/director Noah Baumbachs follow up to Squid and the Whale is a sophisticated satire that takes hilarious and accurate aim at the not so squishy ..
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
3.0
About Little White Lies Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talente ..
Little White Lies
2.5
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 want ..
Week In Rewind
2.0
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Cine Rina
3.5
Noah Baumbachs entry into the dysfunctional family sweepstakes is a successfully depressing affair that has some genuine laughs to maintain interest w ..
James Wegg Review
4.4
Yet this monster feels carefully observedand very real a testament to Baumbachs script and Kidmans talent.
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
But minefields of potential cliches surrounding the imploding family dramedy are deftly avoided.
Stop Smiling Online
2.5
A monster movie filmed from the unstable point of view of the victims. Stalking the countryside, Margot picks them off one by one like Godzilla on a s ..
Blog Spout
4.5
It is also his aesthetic in a nutshell: Continually raise the bar of dramatic incident but pitch it always on the same colorless wavelength.
The Reeler
1.0
Baumbach The Writer daringly opens up a massive can of worms in the overall story arcs of this film... but he fails Baumbach the director
Mcn Blogs
3.8
There are times when Margot at the Wedding is almost impossible to watch. And I think writer/director Noah Baumbach wants it that way.
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