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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten Page   1   "the one thing missing is a plot - and this time Baumbach's characters and their go-nowhere problems are just not engaging enough to carry us through an hour and a half of grating domestic narcissism."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel "Although the film's theme holds great potential, 'Margot at the Wedding' falters considerably in its presentation."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 3.5/5 "Busy, overdrawn, and working much too hard to get to its less than impressive point, Margot at the Wedding is entertainment as inference."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron A "A wonderful picture, informed with a powerful sense of honesty and comedy that that's so robust and exhilarating, it could cause whiplash."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf 3/5 "a smart and honestly ugly film, with well-toned dialogue and an acute understanding of neurotic compulsion... a minor piece of work"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti B "Writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to "Squid and the Whale" is a sophisticated satire that takes hilarious and accurate aim at the not-so-squishy belly of American family life where narcissistic psychosexual games are played out with shameless imme"   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 66/100 "Artistic self-involvement has seldom been more unappealingly portrayed."   Apollo Guide   Dan Jardine 1.5/4 "A huge disappointment after Baumbach's sublime 'Squid and the Whale. Ugly and mean."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   David N. Butterworth 1.5/4 "...unappealing and flat-out annoying."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B "A bracing family drama that is appealing only in a disturbing way because its characters make hardly any attempt to be appealing... ."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Simply put, to spend time with these people is unpleasant and without a payoff (or an emotional release) to reward the audience's efforts."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "Like Malcom's mustache, it's all "meant to be funny," though the effect is more like drowning."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B- "There are laughs here, and a fair amount of insight. I just wish Baumbach had something new to bring to the table."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C+ "These people are so intensely unlikable, and the film so unwilling to help them toward any sort of redemption, that Margot becomes a sour and unrewarding experience."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "... after submerging the viewer in a hotbed of emotional insecurity and self-loathing for an hour and a half, it offers no real hope or movement beyond what it started out as."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. 1/4 "A self-indulgent, self-aware, and smug piece of crap and possibly one of the worst of 2007..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 2/4 "Synthetically dull, manipulative and emotionally clunky, Baumbach's mawkish melodrama is a pretentious and garrulous character study that sits idly in its moping gibberish."   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng C- "A dreary, indeed irritating portrait of people who never seem authentic and certainly aren't emotionally engaging."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "Explores with creative and comic energy the difficulties of the sibling bond and the mixed feelings we often have for those who share our history."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B "Rather than stick to what he knows and what he's good at, Baumbach unfortunately gave into the irresistible temptation to work with Nicole Kidman, who isn't as deft in handling his particular brand of comedy and its obligatory delivery style."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2/4 "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."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "Noah Baumbach knows his way around an honest exploration of family and friendship and Margot serves to reinforce the point."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 6/10 "Baumbach has a few particular gifts, including the ability to recognize, re-create, and make realistic -- without necessarily belittling -- the kind of human monsters we all recognize."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 76/100 "In this day and age, its stripped down incisiveness is nearly unfathomable."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "I think it's one of the best-written films I've seen this year, and it features what might be the greatest performances to date in the careers of Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 2.5/4 "Baumbach is not interested in weddings or preparations for weddings. He is not interested in much else but throwing his audience into the fire and giving us that dirty, nasty taste of family dysfunction in all its seething glory."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 2/5 "I really didn't like it at all. Catch it on HBO so you can see it uncensored if you want to see some acting outside a script and director's ability to render it unpalatable."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery "You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books/You're very well-read/It's well-known."   Reeler   Keith Uhlich 2/4 "It's a shame to see such dedicated performers flay their psyches in the service of such fundamentally shallow material."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh C+ "After choking on laughs for a period, the question becomes whether Baumbach has anything to deliver beyond his misanthropic floggings."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "Margot's carelessness is Kidman's genius here: the actress makes no attempt to ingratiate herself with us, which ends up making Margot thoroughly unlikeable but totally fascinating, in a rubbernecking-a-car-crash-on-the-highway kind of way."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1.5/5 "The aesthetics of the film are as chaotic as the characters themselves, as if the editor tried to mimic the style of the French New Wave movement without paying attention to the theoretical reasoning behind it."   Bronsonfive   Michael Ferraro 3/4 "Have you ever been in a really uncomfortable situation where people were fighting, and then you were glad to get away from it but also kind of fascinated by what you saw? Well, this movie is the equivalent of that."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C+ "The odiousness of [Baumbach's] protagonists ... isn't as problematic a factor as is the redundancy (and occasional mean-spiritedness) of his psychological portraits."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2/5 "If you sat through Noah Baumbach's "The Squid and the Whale" and felt that the characters were just too cuddly and charming for your tastes, then his latest effort, "Margot At the Wedding," should be right up your alley."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "The script is a bit over-packed with secrets and revelations, quirks and wrinkles, but it's so vividly played out that we can't take our eyes off the screen."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline F "You'd have to pay me a lot of money to get me to watch this again."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten C+ "[Nicole] Kidman is fascinating to watch but her character is akin to fingernails scraping across a chalkboard."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford B+ "Shooting with a handheld camera that stays just slightly aloof from the uneasy atmosphere, [Noah] Baumbach creates a vivid and nuanced sense of this family's dynamics."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/4 "tries to much to be shockingly strange but quite entertaining though"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "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."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/10 "An unhappy, mind-numbing, dysfunctional family diatribe"   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 8/10 "What keeps the film from treading into sour vindictiveness is how fully the characters are developed."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3.5/4 "A Dorothy Parker poem come to life."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 1.5/4 "Noah Baumbach stumbles in his first film since the intriguing The Squid and the Whale. The performances are outlandish and the story is all over the place."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten Page   1