Zane Pais, Susan Blackwell, Flora Cross
Margot Zeller, a savagely bright, razor-tongued short-story writer who creates chaos wherever she goes, sets off on a surprise journey to the wedding of her estranged and free-spirited, unassuming sis...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 19, 2008
Stats: 3,169 reviews
Margot at the Wedding is a lot like the character of Margot herself--sometimes funny, often random, frequently pretentious, at times loathsome but mostly batshit crazy. Noah Baumbach relies on a lot of the random and fucked up conversations and situations that made his previous f...( read more)
Margot At The Wedding is a movie I thought I would really enjoy, because it is written and directed by Noah Baumbach. He did The Squid and The Whale and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, both of which I adored.
I really didn't know what to make of this movie, to be honest. The...( read more)
Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black all turn in excellent performances in this sleeper hit. Not a good one to try to "escape" with: though it's a great movie with authentic characters and events, and very realistic, it's just so depressing. Definitely worth watchin...( read more)
Hmm...very interesting story and characters. I liked it. Nicole Kidman is near perfection. Jack Black seems to fit in this role better than anything I've seen him in (since The Jackal).
"Margot at the Wedding" is, in no way, an easy movie for people to watch and it's definitely a movie that everyone will have a violent reaction to. For me, the reaction was positive, I found the film terribly distressing but overall, really well done. My friends, on the other han...( read more)
I was disappointed, considering that I liked Noah Baumbach's previous film, The Squid and the Whale. Kidman and Leigh are good in the film and have a great on screen chemistry. The actor playing Kidman's son and the actress playing Leigh's daughter were also good in the film. Jac...( read more)
Screw this Baumbach,I feel sometimes indie scene is dragging because Hollywood starlets and boyish weirdos make a cameo of 90 minutes and that's it.Shaky camera movement?I eat that for breakfast but the screenplay sounds way too much of a plagiarist,sequential family unorthodoxy ...( read more)
As much as I enjoyed The Squid and The Whale, I don't really know what to think of this second effort by Noah Baumbach. The cast is great but it seems that the story didn't do them justice. There were some great moments and some were quite long and annoying. It's certainly not an...( read more)
I can't figure out if there's actually something going on in this movie. And Jack Black was downright irritating, one of the worst performances I've ever seen. Nonetheless, Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance compensates for his damages.
The characters are into emotional laceration for fun. They are verbal, articulate, self-absorbed, selfish, egotistical, cold and fascinating. They've never felt an emotion they couldn't laugh at. full review
A wry, devastatingly witty look at a family you won't soon forget, no matter how hard you try. full review
When it comes to emotional violence, Margot at the Wedding is hard to beat.
A parade of uninteresting characters cruelly betraying one another without motivation. full review
It's bad enough that the movie is about uninteresting people's problems. What's worse is that it's about snobs, and Baumbach buys into their snobbery. full review
It's the people, not the plot, driving this comedy of appalling manners. And Baumbach, with acute intelligence and annihilating wit, writes people with flaws we can (if we're honest) recognize as our ... full review
Noah Bambauch makes it easy to dislike his films. Problem is, he also makes it easy for New York's media elite to praise them. full review
See the movie if you like emotional car wrecks and people who can't hold their mud. full review
The opening scenes of Margot at the Wedding are so sharp and funny and good that it's upsetting to report that the film cannot maintain its momentum, but flails and flounders, before finally giving wa... full review
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