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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...

Review: 'Margot at the Wedding' (3 stars) (Daily Southtown) - Family dysfunction has its own language, with its own loaded rhythms and insinuating inflections, and writer-director Noah Baumbach is proving to be the movie master of just such linguistics.

Film Clips (Creative Loafing Atlanta) - Capsule reviews of recently released movies... Opening Friday I'M NOT THERE 3 stars (R) See review. MARGOT AT THE WEDDING 4 stars (R) See review. SLEUTH (R) In this remake of the Oscar-nominated thriller from 1972, a young English hairdresser (Jude Law) plays a cat-and-mouse game with his lover's husband, a mystery writer (Michael Caine, who played the younger role in the original film). ...

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 ...

100 Notable Books of the Year (New York Times) - The Book Review picks outstanding works from the last year.

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

"Margot" at the unpleasant, dysfunctional wedding (Seattle Times) - If all movies were entirely concerned with nice, admirable people, nobody would watch them — how interesting would the spectacle of...

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.