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By Jeanne Aufmuth (581) for Palo Alto Weekly (965) on 20 Oct 2005

The collapse of this nuclear family is peppered with wry humor that nevertheless rubs raw…

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By Detroit (1) on 19 Oct 2005

Great acting but not much more. Depressing as hell and shot as if it were a home movie. Not worth your trouble…

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By Jared (27) on 19 Oct 2005

This is a phenomenal movie…

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By Fantasy (142) on 18 Oct 2005

This is a movie not even a mother could love…

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By Brucutz. (1) on 18 Oct 2005

Sharp and funny movie about four sad and lonely people working through a messy divorce in NYC mid-1980s…

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By Wendy (42) on 18 Oct 2005

Hated this dysfunctional family especially the father and the older son…

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By Jimr. (13) on 15 Oct 2005

Loved those darn characters.specially that wacky tennis pro. I'd give it an 11 if I could…

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By Paul Malcolm (112) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 12 Oct 2005

Baumbach weds his verbal gifts to a fresh visual acuity that brings layers of rich detail to a portrait of a family coping, poorly, with self-inflicted…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 12 Oct 2005

The acid exchanges and inconvenient longings of a dissolving marriage, the exquisite agony of those first flutterings of love and those first…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Oct 2005

Acutely observed, faultlessly acted, graced with piercing emotion and unsparing honesty, it will make you laugh because you can't bear to cry…

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By Andrew Sarris (502) for New York Observer (1,400) on 12 Oct 2005

Works very well as a grown-up family entertainment unafraid of all the indelicate details of pubescent indiscretions among children entangled…

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By Dan Fienberg (310) for Zap2it.com (379) on 12 Oct 2005

Where both of Baumbach's earlier writing-directing efforts occasionally undercut sparkling dialogue with vague characters and Gen-X glibness,…

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By Kent Turner (504) for Film-Forward.com (768) on 09 Oct 2005

[Jeff Daniels] and the rest of the cast play their roles with uncommon ease…

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By Aaron Hillis (362) for Premiere Magazine (318) on 07 Oct 2005

may sound casually like The Royal Tenenbaums, but Baumbach's painstakingly humane and fragile portrait is far less ironic or pretentious…

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By Jim Emerson (69) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 06 Oct 2005

A film this fully realized, with such a personal and sharply focused eye for the telling details of human behavior -- unsparing but not unforgiving…

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By Timothy Knight (332) for Reel.com (1,232) on 06 Oct 2005

The Squid and the Whale represents Baumbach's own coming-of-age as a gifted filmmaker. Put it on your must-see list…

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By Brian Juergens (209) for Freeze Dried Movies (80) on 05 Oct 2005

Baumbach's real achievement is his deft ability to balance the emotional brutality of joint custody with the natural humor of domestic life…

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By Jesse Paddock (16) for culturevulture.net (793) on 05 Oct 2005

Wickedly funny, there's still a recognizable warmth, a sense of familiarity, in Baumbach's writing…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 05 Oct 2005

Photographed in a rough-hewn, French New Wave style befitting its alienated characters, The Squid and the Whale significantly fulfills the…

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By Kevin Lally (258) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 05 Oct 2005

A funny, poignant and layered portrait of a literary family in freefall…

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