Review of Margot at the Wedding (2007) by Nathan L — 26 Jul 2011
Noah Baumbach delivers a dour and sometimes wrongly funny look at a typical dysfunctional family just before the wedding of one of the sisters played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. The screenplay is tight and efficient, if irredeemably mean-spirited.
Nicole Kidman is great as the subtly vicious Margot, who is against everything about the wedding down to the groom-to-be himself, an eccentric lout played by Jack Black. It all adds up to the characters battling each other with their own neuroses in a war of wills and words.
It also features solid supporting work from John Turturro and Ciaran Hinds. Not as inspired as "The Squid and the Whale", this film is nonetheless worth a look if only to witness Kidman in a memorable role in a slightly lesser film.
This review of Margot at the Wedding (2007) was written by Nathan L on 26 Jul 2011.
Margot at the Wedding has generally received mixed reviews.
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