Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

betty dalton Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh both are favorite actors of mine. I really adore them in several classisc they have made during their wonderful carreer. I love Noah Baumbach's earlier work too. It is always unique. But this time childcomedian Jack Black was added to the mix and his character just cant be taken seriously. Neither can the character of Nicole Kidman by the way, however hard she tries. I just cant connect with most of the characters, because I just cant believe in them. This is suppose to be a true to life portrait of a bickering family. But the family members themselves just act in a way that is not credible. This is moslty due to miscasting (Jack Black) and to a rather dull storyline. There really is no drama whatsoever. No laughs either. No tension or surprising plotlines. This movie just falls flat. When you are gonna write a true to life story about bickering between family members you better get the portrayal of these characters right. You better make the characters interesting and credible. But none of that. Too bad. Had high hopes for this Baumbach movie, but it goes to show that even an excellent director combined with excellent actors can make a boring movie. Not so bad, that you get offended by it. It is just slowly grinding towards boredom. Everybody must have experienced it once: seeing a movie that is too good to reject at the very beginning, but at the end leaves you behind with a bland feeling of frustration.

dierregi Margot and her teenage son are supposed to attend Pauline, Margot's sister wedding. They travel from Manhattan to the countryside, where Pauline lives. Margot and Pauline have a troubled relationship and haven't meet for a while.Other characters in the movie are Pauline's daughter from a previous marriage, her live-in boyfriend Malcolm (a creepy Jack Black), Margot ex-lover, who conveniently lives close to Pauline and a few nasty neighbors.I read in other reviews that Margot is supposed to be "sophisticated and accomplished" and superior to Pauline, but to me they both looked like bums, badly dressed and bad mannered.Also, I hardly ever felt so detached watching a movie. I usually like or dislike intensely, but in this movie characters behaved in such a totally alien way that they could have belonged to a different species. Although I understood what they said, I had no clue to why the acted the way they did.A silly open ending leaves you exactly where you started. And by the way, only in movies female characters drop their bags and run away. Nobody wants to be bothered with having to get extra keys and copies of all your documents, let alone an allegedly "sophisticated" Newyorker.Finally, the lack of soundtrack and proper lighting, terrible shots (with lots of back-lights), faded color and weird costumes made this look like an amateurish, pseudo-documentary made in the 70s. I got wise too late that Baumbach was the director, at the time still married to Jason Leigh, in the role of Pauline. A role that at present would be played by Gerwig, the permanent female fixture of all his more recent movies (of which I watched two, both of which sucked... hence my remark of having noticed too late his being the director of this other turd)

SnoopyStyle Successful writer Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her son Claude travel to attend her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh)'s wedding to Malcolm (Jack Black) at their Long Island home. They live in the estranged sisters' former family home with Pauline's daughter Ingrid. Pauline is a free-spirit and Margot looks down on the slacker Malcolm. They talk about the absent Becky. There's a fight with the neighbor over Margot's beloved tree. Pauline tells Margot about her pregnancy. Margot is looking to break up with her husband Jim. She has an interview with former boyfriend Dick Koosman (Ciarán Hinds). It goes badly with a secret from Dick's daughter Maisy.This is a mass of dysfunctional family relationship. It's not exactly dark and it's not necessarily funny. It exists in a murky space where it is tough to find the appeal. The most appealing are actresses Kidman and Leigh. Black is interestingly playing against type. The actors are fine although Noah Baumbach hasn't created a crowd pleaser.

ozjeppe Author Kidman brings her teen son along to her childhood house in Long Island, NY for a weekend - mainly to attend her estranged sister's (Leigh) planned wedding to slacker Black. Least to say, nothing goes as foreseen, as the dysfunctional family personalities clash and their broken skeletons practically dance out of the closet.No easy watch here, as writer/director Noah Baumbach brings us a most dour and dense family drama that really puts the wiever like the fly-on-the-wall. Frantically paced and edited, shot mostly on hand-held camera, this is definitely not without its assets (including strong, gutsy performances and story unpredictability), but suffers mostly from Neurotica Exhaustion as the anguish is being non-stop thrown in your face. Sometimes it's funny just because laughter is the only way out of the claustrophobic atmosphere of its emotionally wrenching characters. Dialog is memorable, but so edgily candid and aloof that it's hardly realistic. And how many characters do we really have strength left enough to care for in the end? Nice to hear some old Blondie songs, though! 5 out of 10 from Ozjeppe