Margot at the Wedding Reviews

Director Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding is a film which examines sibling relationships. A neurotic writer and her son make a surprise visit to her sister on the eve of her wedding, and mayhem ensues. The film stars Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh as the sisters, and Jack Black as the man Jennifer Jason Leigh is about to marry.

The reviews for this film are mixed to unfavorable, as some critics found it lacking compared to Baumbach's previous effort, The Squid and the Whale. The website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a middling 51% freshness rating, while Metacritic's review aggregate shows a rating of 66 out of 100, which indicates generally favorable reviews.

Fast Facts

1. Release date: October 19, 2007
2. DVD release date: February 19, 2008
3. Director: Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale)
4. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro
5. Premiered at the Telluride Film Festival
6. Rating: R
7. Distributor: Paramount Vantage
8. Box office: $1,929,081
9. Rotten Tomatoes freshness rating: 51%
10. Metacritic: 66 out of 100
11. Metacritic users: 6 out of 10

Margot at the Wedding Review Excerpts

• "All this reps an unholy stew of ill will, festering emotions, latent resentments, barely disguised agendas and rampant incivility, so it's a tribute to Baumbach's skills as a writer and director that he manages to make spending time with these folks as tolerable as he does." --Variety

• "If I'm making the film sound detestable, maybe that's the best way I know of to express my admiration for it, and the way it keeps relentlessly covering the same ground (the characters' linty psychic navels) while still managing to top itself, scene after scene." --Sun Times

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