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09/28/06 03:15 AM
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
94 %
Reviews Counted: 136 Fresh: 128 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 8/10
Consensus: This is a piercingly honest, acidly witty look at divorce and its impact on a family. more
Rated: 15
Runtime: 88 mins
Runtime: 88 mins
Theatrical Release: 07-04-2006
Synopsis:
Noah Baumbach's THE SQUID AND THE WHALE is an excruciatingly humane, often hilarious portrait of a disintegrating family in mid-1980s Brooklyn. Set in the stately yet off-kilter neighborhood of Park Slope, the film tells the story of the Berkmans, a quintessentially New York family... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, William Baldwin
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04/11/06 03:16 AM
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04/08/06 03:37 AM
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Beautifully written, moving and frequently hilarious drama with terrific performances and superb, Oscar-nominated dialogue - this is one of the best films of the year.
04/06/06 03:15 AM
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02/09/06 03:16 AM
Top Critic A complex, bristling film that resonates on many levels without ever overstating its case.
12/02/05 01:13 AM
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08/16/07 03:15 AM
Like the diorama in New York's Museum of Natural History from which the film's title is derived, The Squid And The Whale depicts deep-seated conflict in a manner that is at once exquisitely lifelike and mesmerisingly awful to look at.
08/06/07 03:33 AM
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11/11/06 04:16 AM
Un retrato honesto y revelador de la descomposición de un matrimonio, visto desde la perspectiva de los hijos adolescentes.
08/11/06 03:25 PM
...Baumbach's most emotionally potent and visually coherent film to date.
08/05/06 09:15 PM
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05/12/06 03:15 AM
Doesn't break much new ground in terms of parental misconduct or adolescent sexual confusion.
05/04/06 02:55 PM
It's brittle, yet tender. Familiar, yet fresh. Intelligent with shooting pains of unpredictability, the film offers no simple answers to unanswerable questions. Instead it leave us with a heartfelt portrayal that involves and touches us.
04/02/06 05:36 PM
Relentless in its condemnation of childish parenting and irresponsibility, Noah Baumbach's uncomfortable The Squid and the Whale ranks as one of 2005's best films by pulling no punches whatsoever.
02/03/06 07:20 AM
An insightful, unblinking, bittersweet and funny portrait of a family in the process of a bitter divorce.
02/02/06 11:12 PM
As smart and strongly acted as the movie is, you're still left with the feeling that it's ultimately a rather thin slice of personal history that would have been better left as a short story or a lifetime of therapy sessions.
01/05/06 12:28 PM
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