Manthast Absolutely amazing

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

betty dalton Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh both are favorite actors of mine. I really adore them in several classisc they have made during their wonderful carreer. I love Noah Baumbach's earlier work too. It is always unique. But this time childcomedian Jack Black was added to the mix and his character just cant be taken seriously. Neither can the character of Nicole Kidman by the way, however hard she tries. I just cant connect with most of the characters, because I just cant believe in them. This is suppose to be a true to life portrait of a bickering family. But the family members themselves just act in a way that is not credible. This is moslty due to miscasting (Jack Black) and to a rather dull storyline. There really is no drama whatsoever. No laughs either. No tension or surprising plotlines. This movie just falls flat. When you are gonna write a true to life story about bickering between family members you better get the portrayal of these characters right. You better make the characters interesting and credible. But none of that. Too bad. Had high hopes for this Baumbach movie, but it goes to show that even an excellent director combined with excellent actors can make a boring movie. Not so bad, that you get offended by it. It is just slowly grinding towards boredom. Everybody must have experienced it once: seeing a movie that is too good to reject at the very beginning, but at the end leaves you behind with a bland feeling of frustration.

csincsakf So far the worst movie I've seen. The characters can't be thought to be real. Some of the actors and actresses -and now I think for rather Kidman were worst than ever and still I don't mention Jack Black whom I always hated and his "acting stuff" is just a joke. He has no place in a "drama", but this whole story was rather a real bad joke and an ironic tale about a nonsense and "can't be real" family. That's just the pie in the sky that the movie couldn't tell me anything important, every single event and thing were absolutely predictable and had no sense. Probably something went wrong during the scrip-writing or during telling the actors what to do.

runamokprods While an intelligent portrait of a highly dysfunctional family that shares a lot in tone and style with Baumbach's 'Squid and the Whale', this is colder, more distant and less moving. That's OK, and it's still WAY above most of what's out there, but it's hard not to feel there's a great movie trapped in this good one. One thing that hurts is that (unlike 'Squid') the acting is uneven. Jack Black, an actor I always enjoy, seems a bit uncomfortable playing a tragic as well as comic figure. But this is one of those complex films I'll re-visit one day, and could imagine liking more on re- seeing, being prepared for it's difficult tone.

ozjeppe Author Kidman brings her teen son along to her childhood house in Long Island, NY for a weekend - mainly to attend her estranged sister's (Leigh) planned wedding to slacker Black. Least to say, nothing goes as foreseen, as the dysfunctional family personalities clash and their broken skeletons practically dance out of the closet.No easy watch here, as writer/director Noah Baumbach brings us a most dour and dense family drama that really puts the wiever like the fly-on-the-wall. Frantically paced and edited, shot mostly on hand-held camera, this is definitely not without its assets (including strong, gutsy performances and story unpredictability), but suffers mostly from Neurotica Exhaustion as the anguish is being non-stop thrown in your face. Sometimes it's funny just because laughter is the only way out of the claustrophobic atmosphere of its emotionally wrenching characters. Dialog is memorable, but so edgily candid and aloof that it's hardly realistic. And how many characters do we really have strength left enough to care for in the end? Nice to hear some old Blondie songs, though! 5 out of 10 from Ozjeppe