Margot at the Wedding Critic Reviews

Which brings us back to Kidman, who really IS sensational here.Read the full review

Noah Baumbach has followed up his acclaimed 2005 breakthrough "The Squid and the Whale" with another wryly observed, giddily cringe-inducing, bracingly original winner.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Frequently brilliant, finally baffling film.Read the full review

One of the dark pleasures of "Margot" is watching Kidman and Leigh inhabit these two roles with a fierce passion.Read the full review

Watching Kidman, Leigh and -- in his nutty, damn-the-torpedoes way -- Black as they torment, confound and torture one another amounts to a vicarious thrill ride in human behavior.Read the full review

A broader work than Baumbach's last movie, and it's funnier, too, even as you gasp at the misbehavior.Read the full review

So it goes with the family in this movie. All of its members are engaged in a mutual process of shooting one another down. Watching Margot at the Wedding is like slowing for a gaper's block.Read the full review