Noah Baumbach directs Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jack Black in this adult comedy where a highly strung sister arrives at her old family home to disrupt her slacker sister’s wedding.

Some real bitter nasty here. Everyone plays an absolute weak willed scumbag. I don’t think it is intended as an eat-the-rich satire. There are moments with potent ambiguity (what is going on behind that fence, for example?) Maybe the ultimate point is humanity is awful whether you know them intimately or at a remove? There are a couple of times that characters repeat small gestures in different contexts. Baumbach clearly intends a deeper meaning here than just “look at this set of bastards”.

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