Review of Margot at the Wedding (2007) by Jesse K — 09 Aug 2014

Typical Baumbach. Dark humour, unlikable characters, awkward dialogue. It's fantastic.

This review of Margot at the Wedding (2007) was written by Jesse K on 09 Aug 2014.

Margot at the Wedding has generally received mixed reviews.

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Margot at the Wedding tells the story of a bunch of characters and their lives, but fails to let us know why we are watching them…

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Watching Kidman, Leigh and -- in his nutty, damn-the-torpedoes way -- Black as they torment, confound and torture one another amounts to a…

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Review In A Nutshell: After seeing both Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha and The Squid and the Whale, I expected Margot at the Wedding to be well…

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By Lucy W (391) on 10 Dec 2013

Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her son Claude (Zane Paris) decide to visit her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) after she announces that she…

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Margot at the Wedding is a little too literary and its overall air of wry cartoonish dysfunctionality becomes wearing and is conceitedly telegraphed…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 07 Apr 2017

So it goes with the family in this movie. All of its members are engaged in a mutual process of shooting one another down…

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Boring and couldn't make head not tail of it. Why would she leave her handbag with all her money, cards and phone and run off like that…

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