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Margot At TheWedding Verdict: Lacklustre follow-up to The Squid And TheWhale . . ...

DISAPPOINTMENT of the week is Margot At The Wedding, writerdirector NoahBaumbach's feeble follow-up to his Oscar-nominated The Squid And The Whale.

It retreads the territory of his first movieteenage children trying to survive obnoxious parentsbut it does so with considerably less insight, charm and humour.

The anti-heroine is Margot Zeller (Nicole Kidman), a sharp-tongued short-storywriter who's dissatisfied with her marriage (to a barely glimpsed JohnTurturro), and disapproving of the forthcoming nuptials of a sister she doesn'tlike (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to ...

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