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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Essentially, it's 90 minutes spent in the company of some excruciatingly unpleasant personalities, and dimly lit ones at that. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: A parade of uninteresting characters cruelly betraying one another without motivation. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Baumbach's achievement stings. It also has the sureness of tone and direction of a Chekhov story. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Apart from John Turturro in a cameo, all the characters are monsters and/or basket cases. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Margot At The Wedding counts as a bracing, even disturbing experience. Baumbach doesn't seem to care whether people like his characters; he merely wants them to be seen for who they are, warts and all. Read more
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: Margot at the Wedding is an excellent film that few people will see, and even fewer will like. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Margot at the Wedding is a broader work than Baumbach's last movie, and it's funnier, too, even as you gasp at the misbehavior. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: There is a rawness to the characterization in this lacerating film that pushes family drama right to the edge. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Margot at the Wedding is obviously a movie made by smart and talented people but sometimes you can outsmart yourself. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Writer-director Noah Baumbach solidifies his standing as the modern bard of American dysfunctional families with Margot at the Wedding, but at the same time he's recycling material he's already covered, and covered more exquisitely. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: As the ambivalent title guest in Noah Baumbach's pleasurably painful domestic drama Margot at the Wedding, Nicole Kidman is so unlikable as to be spectacular. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Along with its genteel rage and sour whimsy, the ultimate grace of Margot at the Wedding is to make its onlookers feel that, no matter how dysfunctional their families are, there are those who have it much worse. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Baumbach's closely observed tale of dysfunctional family relationships has the microscopic texture of a New Yorker short story and the darting, spontaneous style of a French New Wave movie. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Margot is sensually as well as dramatically impoverished. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: See the movie if you like emotional car wrecks and people who can't hold their mud. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: In its sharp characters and unexpected moods, Margot at the Wedding is something like a small gift for audiences. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Margot has no sense of balance, or nuance, or even mitigating psychological weight. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: I've had root canals that were more enjoyable than Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's hugely pretentious, ugly and annoying follow-up to The Squid and the Whale. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Only an actress of Ms. Kidman's stature, talent and proven magnetism could make her mercurial character bearable and watchable for the full 91 minutes of the film, in which she is in almost every scene. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Margot at the Wedding provides ample evidence of just how low Noah Baumbach has sunk. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: There isn't a pleasant, wholly likable character in the cast. But you can't avert your eyes from it. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The defining metaphor of Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's dysfunctional-family seriocomedy, is a battle-scarred Volvo with faulty brakes. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Unfortunately, Baumbach's follow-up to The Squid and the Whale, the pretentious and talky Margot at the Wedding, is more likely to contract than expand his appeal. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: 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. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Margot at the Wedding is Noah Baumbach's best yet. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: It's too bad Baumbach's movie is already shot, edited, and up there on the screen, because after a few rounds with a red pencil, it could really have been something worth watching. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If you enjoy seeing people at their passive-aggressive worst, the verbal sword fights between the sisters will tickle your black heart. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: These characters don't seem illuminating at all -- just damned annoying and, ultimately, dead boring. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: There's no question Baumbach has a way with words and actors (Kidman, Leigh and Jack Black are terrific). Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Baumbach's interest in families - a distinct Baumbachian sort of family - is acute and his observations often painful and delivered with a dry wit. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Margot at the Wedding is a circus of family neuroses and bad behavior that perhaps a therapist could make sense of better than Noah Baumbach can. Read more
Jim Ridley, Village Voice: This blast of homecoming claustrophobia is being released for the holidays, when it may prove therapeutic. Bring the family. Or better yet, leave them. Read more