Destination Wedding is the first rom-com that had me rooting for the stars’ continued celibacy and hoping they won’t procreate.

| Original Score: 1.5 | Aug 17, 2022

Reeves and Ryder do their best, but for the most part this is an misanthropic exercise that becomes too grating to be worthy of much ceremony.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2020

It's with the heaviest of hearts that I regretfully inform you of the sad fact that [this] "not a rom-com" rom-com starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder is not a good film.

| Jul 1, 2020

Reeves and Ryder get miscast as brittle, misanthropic loners connecting during a dreaded wedding weekend. The film demands congratulations for having a vocabulary, but the nonstop jabber is merely time-filling, sub-Kevin Smith prattle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2020

If you enter with the intention to get down on the level of Destination Wedding's debased sewer-bile dialogue you will be rewarded with a deranged symphony of laughter.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2020

As it stands, the best measure available to judge its appeal before watching is this: how much do you love Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves?

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 2, 2020

Even in a genre that allows wordiness, however, the dialogue is overwritten. Reeves and Ryder too often sound like waspish columnists quoting their stuff at each other.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 20, 2019

On-screen chemistry between two magnetic leads can overcome a lot in a film, but it can't mask questionable screenwriting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2019

A sort of anti-romantic comedy, Destination Wedding is a snide, well written independent comedy with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder as Frank and Lindsay, two strangers who meet on their way to a wedding in California's wine region.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2019

A missed opportunity. The two leads are anchored by a script which skirts so close to being informed and interesting, but ends up like an overheard conversation between two people who should definitely not be together.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 4, 2019

There's something that undeniably works about Destination Wedding and much of that praise must fall at the door of Reeves and Ryder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2019

Big stars read stuff and kill the funny.

| May 22, 2019

[The] effortless chemistry Reeves and Ryder have...are enough to hold a movie together, even if it isn't dark enough to be properly cynical or silly enough to elicit a happy sigh.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2019

It is clunky, sophomoric, unconvincing, obvious, painful and dreadful and our erstwhile film stars gave this word vomit the delivery it deserved. Which is to say, terrible.

| May 16, 2019

Destination Wedding is nothing if not wasted potential, weighed down by a script which fails to produce any spark on screen, underlined by an incongruously cheesy score.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2019

Against the odds, Reeves and Ryder sell it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2019

While Reeves and Ryder have an undeniable charm, the film soon becomes very monotonous.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 12, 2019

Nevertheless, Destination Wedding is an entertaining exercise in misanthropy that will delight those with no love for the average romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 10, 2019

This is, hands down, the most ridiculously overwritten film in the history of romcoms, possibly even of all movies.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 10, 2019

While not particularly visually inventive, the director has a keen eye for the casually absurd, so that every setting he puts his characters in comes with just the right amount of daftness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 10, 2019