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Review: Clueless 'Margot' spoils sister's wedding (San Francisco Chronicle) - RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Margot at the Wedding: Comedy-drama. Starring Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black. Directed by Noah Baumbach. (R. 91 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Writer-director Noah Baumbach likes to cast a wide net. He throws a...

Movie review: Comedy in 'Margot' is so dark it hurts (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - There are comedies of manners; why can't there be comedies of misbehavior? There's no better way to describe "Margot at the Wedding," a pitch-black farce about two intellectual sisters who manage to turn a theoretically joyous occasion into a game of scorpions in a bottle. Nicole Kidman deserves some kind of bravery merit badge for taking the title role. Margot is a real original, part brittle ...

Movie review: 'Enchanted' a royal treat (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - "Enchanted" is a pure comic confection, at once a spoof and a celebration of those Disney fantasies where a prince and princess fall in love over the course of a duet and bluebirds sew her wedding dress. Beginning in a world of classic hand-drawn animation, we meet Princess Giselle and Prince Edward, who give us a full first act in about eight minutes -- character songs, story line, climax and ...

iW BOT | Hometown Hottie: NY Audiences Crazy for Baumbach's "Wedding;" "No Country" Continues Its Killer Box Office; ... (indieWIRE) - Hometown fans came out in force for Brooklyn-born, Lower Manhattan-relocated filmmaker Noah Baumbach 's sisters-at-odds comedy " Margot at the Wedding ." The Paramount Vantage release earned $81,035 from two Manhattan locations, making it the top film on the iWBOT.

Movie review: Say `I don't' to `Margot' (AP via Yahoo! News) - With 2005's "The Squid and the Whale," writer-director Noah Baumbach created characters who were smart, witty, sad, vulnerable and, above all else, laceratingly verbal.

Review: Web site helps track trip plans (AP via Yahoo! News) - Planning a trip can be as much of a pain as getting stuck on a delayed flight.

Review: Snow White gets a rude awakening in 'Enchanted' (San Francisco Chronicle) - RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Enchanted: Fantasy comedy. Starring Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Rachel Covey, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel and Susan Sarandon. Directed by Kevin Lima. (PG. 108 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. See complete movie listings...

Review: Web Site Helps Track Trip Plans (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - Planning a trip can be as much of a pain as getting stuck on a delayed flight. A new Web site called TripIt came to the rescue as I was planning three out-of-town weekends in a row this fall.

Book Review: 'Bitter Sweets' (International Herald Tribune) - Roopa Farooki's 'Bitter Sweets' works quite nicely on its own wit and narrative flair, but an addendum with questions such as "How has the Asian community reacted to 'Bitter Sweets?'" demean it.

Review: Margot at the Wedding (About.com) - The opening scenes of Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding are so sharp and funny and good that it's upsetting to report that the film cannot maintain its momentum, but...