Mike Newell, director of Enchanted April, has made an even more charming movie. Richard Curtis' screenplay shuffles at least 20 characters, all outlined with strict economy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 29, 2024

Like the best champagne, Four Weddings and a Funeral goes to the head quickly. And like the best champagne, it leaves fizzy memories and almost no hangover.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2024

The script by Blackadder’s Richard Curtis and direction by Mike Newell give this comical romantic froth such an eager whisk that it stands up and assaults the taste buds.

| Feb 29, 2024

This is a glorious, entertaining, fast-moving, hilarious comedy, packed with great jokes, scattered like confetti and delivered by a cast who act their socks off.

| Feb 29, 2024

It is smart and ironic, perceptive and observant, witty and poignant, moving and sad, all at the same time. This is more than an accomplishment for a romantic comedy. This is a small miracle.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 29, 2024

Newell, a director like Stephen Frears who has no particular style but fits his undoubted expertise to the material, has to be congratulated not only for getting such good performances but for the pace and verve with which he lays out the absurdities.

| Feb 29, 2024

No matter, however, that plot likelihood is unconvincing. Grant's nuanced comic style survives it. Easy to see why America has gone for him.

| Feb 29, 2024

Four Weddings and a Funeral is so full of elegant bounce that you aren't always aware of what a splendid balancing act it is. It's sly, libidinous, sunny, quick and altogether beguiling.

| Feb 29, 2024

The Richard Curtis screenplay is as tightly wound as the springs on alarm clocks -- the ones that never seem to wake Charles early enough to get him to the church on time.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 29, 2024

Four Weddings and a Funeral, which is structured like a film student's senior project, strives to be more than that and ends up as something worse: a smarmy little fable about the magic of true love.

| Feb 29, 2024

The film's rather an awful thing as Hollywood grotesques go, and it isn't even actually an H-town gig. Weddings, no matter how badly shot, remain fascinating and unnerving till death do us part.

| Feb 29, 2024

The movie has a genuine good spirit, a democratic appreciation of erotic possibilities in unlikely situations. And Newell and Curtis convince us that the people in this odd group actually do like each other.

| Feb 29, 2024

It has just the right mix of the romantic and the risqué, the witty and the wistful, glossed with a sheen of pure class.

| Feb 29, 2024

Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell are charmingly almost believable; Kristin Scott Thomas is catty and sly as a best-dressed, lovelorn rich girl; and Simon Callow breaks through the screen with a merry selection of waistcoats and an air of enjoying himself.

| Feb 29, 2024

When it comes to tapping into universal experiences, you usually can't go wrong with weddings and funerals, and Newell hasn't.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 29, 2024

Four Weddings and a Funeral is delightful proof that our British cousins view weddings with the same sense of joy -- or, in some cases, terror -- that we do.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 29, 2024

The greatest achievement is how director Mike Newell has milked afresh all those clichéd rituals -- from the best man's speech to the funeral oration -- and turned them into the high art of indiscretion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2024

Although the nervous charm of Grant's Charles is not to be denied, it's insufficient to cover what his English forebears might call a caddish streak. Frankly, we'd sooner make friends with other members of the film's floating wedding party.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 29, 2024

This is a gem of a film, wise, witty and impeccably paced.

| Feb 29, 2024

You'll laugh, you'll cry. In short, you could say Four Weddings and a Funeral delivers everything it promises.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 29, 2024