The Errant Æsthete

“When it comes to emotional violence,” A.O. Scott of the NY Times writes,“‘Margot at the Wedding’ is hard to beat.” Noah Baumbach’s follow-up to “The Squid and the Whale” stars Jennifer Jason Leigh (his wife) and Nicole Kidman as squabbling sisters fighting over one’s fiancé (Jack Black) and the other’s kid. “The realism of ‘Margot at the Wedding’ — the texture of unpredictable, lived experience that keeps both farce and melodrama in check — lies in its sense of sprawl and untidiness, in the feeling that the movie itself is snipped from an endless tangle of bad feelings and good intentions,” Scott writes. It’s not perfect, but it’s “often mercilessly, squirm-inducingly funny.” Well, close enough. (UrbanEye)

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