"The game of one-upmanship is furtively dealt underneath the surface, Margot's conceit is undermined by a crumbling marriage with Jim (Turturro) and her abortive affair with the brittle author Dick (Hinds), who doesn't show much affection to her. As for the free-spirited Pauline, the wedding would be her trump card to finally earn her some sense of superiority in front of Margot, but there is a monkey wrench in her plan, it turns out that Malcolm isn't a totally above-board marriage material for her. If the intrigues and turns of events sound remotely interesting on paper, Baumbach's effectuation fails to live up to that expectation, like the rushed ending, after the whole fuss, we are still none the wiser about Margot, although Kidman gives a layered performance that is often out of her comfort zone. However, everyone is blown out of water by Lee, whose Pauline is a composite of messiness, grievance and uncertainty, and she manages to pull together a semblance of integrity out of her ex-husband's slap-happy ideation (she and Baumbach was married at that time), and when she tears into her outpourings, they are legion. Still, hoisted by its own petard of kookiness, MARGOT... is self-indulgent, fickle, full of caprices that further pull audience away from empathizing with its characters, not Baumbach's best offering, that is for sure. "
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Review of Margot at the Wedding
