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Emotion Exposed! Noah Baumbach's 'Greenberg'new
Noah Baumbach twists a clichéd romance-movie trope to make it seem new again with Greenberg.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-25-2010 |
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Tags: Greenberg, Noah Baumbach
Ben Stiller is a Bastard in This Excellent Drama About a Failurenew
Two things you should know off the bat about Greenberg. First, it’s a deeply unlikable movie. Second, I liked it. You see, most movies have main characters who are nice people, because moviegoers tend to prefer the company of such characters
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
03-25-2010 |
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Off His Chest: Noah Baumbach Makes Room for the Loony
American 21st century post traumatic stress and economic desolation gets filtered through the mid-life crisis of Ben Stiller's troubled character Roger Greenberg in Noah Baumbach's edgy romantic comedy that puts a premium on how we treat one another.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
03-22-2010 |
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Tags: Greenberg, Noah Baumbach
On the Strange Symbiosis Between Publicists and Film Criticsnew
Greenberg, the big-budget mumblecore movie by Noah Baumbach, should enter the language as Woody Allen’s Zelig did — a title that goes beyond ethnic specificity to stand for a particular social disorder: the tendency toward vanity, suppression and censorship.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-18-2010 |
Movies
Complex Motivationsnew
Unlikable people talk a lot in this character-driven film you'll love or hate.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-03-2008 |
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Family Treenew
One wonders if Noah Baumbach didn't come to Margot at the Wedding with inadequate material to flesh out an entire feature. Some parts just don't hold together.
Twisted Sistersnew
Noah Baumbach casts perfect actors to play estranged family
Charleston City Paper |
MaryAnn Johanson |
12-19-2007 |
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'Margot at the Wedding': Unholy Matrimonynew
Nicole Kidman as a party killer.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-28-2007 |
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Family Matters in 'Margot at the Wedding'new
Everyone is on the brink of something in Noah Baumbach's latest -- marriage, divorce, puberty -- and by the time one character huffs, "I'm out of breath," you'll have a reasonable idea of how she feels.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-26-2007 |
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Hooray for Family!new
If there's tenderness in Margot at the Wedding, it's steeped in ulterior motives and self-deception: This is not a feel-good film.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
11-26-2007 |
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Inside Noah's Artnew
As with anyone in their late 30s or early 40s, Noah Baumbach's psycho-sexual development owes a lot to the movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
NOW Magazine |
Glenn Sumi |
11-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Margot is Wretched, but 'Margot' is Involvingnew
I'm not a big fan of films that force us to spend an hour and a half with awful and/or hopelessly fucked-up people, but Margot at the Wedding is written with enough wit and performed with enough skill that I found it impossible to turn away from the Zellers and their collective emotional train wreck.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-26-2007 |
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Testing the Limits of Artistic Vision in 'Margot'new
Baumbach fifth feature follows in terse, cutting strokes a short-story writer Margot Zeller with teenage son in tow to the wedding of her estranged sister.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
11-21-2007 |
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'Margot at the Wedding' is Imitation-Salingernew
Noah Bambauch makes it easy to dislike his films; problem is, he also makes it easy for New York's media elite to praise them. His deliberate ugliness makes him the Lars Von Trier of Brooklyn and the Hamptons.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-15-2007 |
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Droll Divorcenew
The Squid and the Whale is lacking in squid and whales, but it's got plenty of amazing performances.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
12-01-2005 |
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