Reviews

• Ambitious, affecting, unwieldy and haunting, it's an eccentric, densely atmospheric, morally hyper-aware masterpiece that refuses to follow the strictures of conventional cinematic structure, instead leading the audience on a circuitous journey down the myriad rabbit holes that comprise modern-day Manhattan.

  Ann Hornaday - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013

• Who knows what movie Lonergan was searching for in all that footage? But what emerges from the tinkering and legal skirmishes is an occasional marvel, a kind of everyday highbrow social X-ray, Paul Mazursky by way of Krzysztof Kieslowski.

  Wesley Morris - The Boston Globe
  
  19 January 2013

• Margaret, for all its flaws, is a film of rare beauty and shocking gravity.

  Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
  
  19 January 2013

• A half hour before the finish, Margaret loses altitude and starts looking for a place, any place, to land. Instead it crashes, in slow motion. But up until then, Margaret is committed and unusual.

  Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  19 January 2013

• Lonergan's dialogue can sweep you up in a whoosh of personality and ideas, but it's hard to see what, apart from ego, convinced him that this story was so epic.

  Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
  
  19 January 2013