Margot at the Wedding

Ultimately a downer, filled with dramatic non-sequiturs, shitty camerawork, and weird child actors. The sister relationship between Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh was deep and fascinating. The whole movie should have been about these women. Instead, half the movie diverts us to Kidman’s weird looking, androgynous son and his misunderstanding of everything and/or Leigh’s funny but random relationship with fiancée Jack Black. What’s annoying, too, are “bits” inserted randomly in the movie which are intentionally and overtly meant to be weird. Rather than reveal the quirks of the characters organically, the filmmaker's “Ooo! Look how weird and dysfunctional these people are!” moments feel phony and premeditated.