Noah Baumbach's "Margot at the Wedding" "should gain some serious awards season traction ahead," promises the Hollywood Reporter. However, after viewing the same pic at Telluride, Variety declared that it doesn't succeed as a film, feeling "more like a collection of arresting scenes than a fully conceived and developed drama."

Variety describes "Margot" as "a circus of family neuroses and bad behavior that perhaps a therapist could make sense of better than Noah Baumbach can." READ MORE

Hollywood Reporter notes that it "probes the terminally dysfunctional relationship between two sisters, played, without a safety net, by Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The two actresses do some of their best work here, while Baumbach gives further evidence as having one of the most original — and affecting comic sensibilities in the business.

"Kidman's never better than when she plays darker types, like in 'To Die For' or 'The Others,' and in Margot she has found a character that gives her permission to let unapologetically loose while still retaining some of that trademark vulnerability.