Rachel Getting Married Critic Reviews

The movie's few false notes come from Lumet's script, which can be overly explanatory. Because Demme is opting for present-tense realism, the characters are forced to fill us in on who did what when to whom, why, and how.Read the full review

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

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

At times, the movie gets bogged down in minutia but the emotions evoked and captured are as honest and brutal as one is likely to find on film.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

A fine ensemble piece, but a maddening and unjustified length.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