Margot at the Wedding

Noah Baumbach

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Margot at the Wedding

Synopsis

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of support. What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.

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91
Entertainment Weekly
Which brings us back to Kidman, who really IS sensational here.
90
The Hollywood Reporter
Noah Baumbach has followed up his acclaimed 2005 breakthrough "The Squid and the Whale" with another wryly observed, giddily cringe-inducing, bracingly original winner.
88
Rolling Stone
Dissenters who see this film as a wallow in self-absorption aren't paying attention. Baumbach is acutely attuned to the droll mind games of smart people who only think they're impervious to feeling.
83
The A.V. Club
Margot has a kitchen-sink realism that's genuinely unsettling, like a John Cassavetes movie populated by the hyper-articulate. If nothing else, Baumbach deserves credit for refusing to cozy up to the audience.
75
Christian Science Monitor
Obviously a movie made by smart and talented people but sometimes you can outsmart yourself.
70
Variety
This study of a disastrous reunion of two sisters feels more like a collection of arresting scenes than a fully conceived and developed drama.
70
Village Voice
Hard as it may be to imagine a comedy that inflicts all the psychic torment of "Cries and Whispers," Baumbach has pulled off a more psychologically acute--and funnier--version of the Bergman pastiches that Woody Allen attempted 30 years ago, with a jumpy, nerve-rattling rhythm all his own.
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Margot at the Wedding doesn’t develop; it just skips from one squirmy scene to the next.

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