Rachel Getting Married Critic Reviews

A friend asked: "Wouldn't you love to attend a wedding like that?" In a way, I felt I had. Yes, I began to feel absorbed in the experience. A few movies can do that, can slip you out of your mind and into theirs.Read the full review

It may be painful at times, but Rachel Getting Married sure is one heck of a party.Read the full review

A triumph -- Demme's finest work since "The Silence of the Lambs," and a movie that tingles with life.Read the full review

It’s a small movie, and in some ways a very sad one, but it has an undeniable and authentic vitality, an exuberance of spirit, that feels welcome and rare.Read the full review

Best and most unexpected of all, Rachel Getting Married dares to mix the bitter with the sweet. It understands that life-altering situations like weddings not only bring out the worst in human behavior but also the finest.Read the full review

Brimming with energy, elan and the unpredictability of his "Something Wild," Jonathan Demme's triumphant Rachel Getting Married may just lay the wedding film to rest, being such a hard act to follow.Read the full review

The acting is of the highest caliber. Winger, magnificent and too long between films, is a volcano of repressed anger.Read the full review

Hathaway transcends her usual complacency in this role and resists the temptation of using Kym's (and her own) wounded-bird appeal to let the character off the hook.Read the full review

A film whose lightness of touch rides a wave of family conflict to perfectly balance smiles and tears.Read the full review