My Best Friend's Wedding Critic Reviews

Ultimately, My Best Friend's Wedding works for some very old-fashioned reasons: It skillfully engages us in the story and its characters. And, for no additional cost, it has something to say about how we live, act, commit and relate.Read the full review

One of the pleasures of Ronald Bass' screenplay is the way it subverts the usual comic formulas that would fuel a plot like this.Read the full review

The real casting disaster is Mulroney. His blandness in the role makes it impossible to believe two beautiful women would fight over him.Read the full review

The film makers understand that it's possible for a romantic comedy to appeal not only to the heart, but to the mind as well.Read the full review

Feels repetitive at times, but its star power and willingness to undercut convention come through at the end.Read the full review

Mulroney is a drip with not a milliliter of chemistry with either woman. Roberts doesn't really seem to care about him so much as the fact that life is passing her by. Though, that may be the point.Read the full review

Julia Roberts glitters like gold dust, and she is ideally partnered with Rupert Everett, who gives a witty, wicked, bust-out performance.Read the full review

And when [Roberts is] on screen with Mulroney, who seems a frat-house jerk -- all dimples and a perma-tan -- we don't feel much of anything.Read the full review

Obtuse, prettily decorative comedy. Characters burst gaily into song when, as often happens, they don't have anything better to do.Read the full review