Rachel Getting Married features a stunning Anne Hathaway performance and manages to stand out from the crowd because of the decision to film it as a home video.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 1, 2024

The film may upset some viewers, particularly those with family not in the habit of communicating. For the rest of us, engrossed in the event’s highs and lows, we revel in Demme’s capable hands and the pathos of his ceremony.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2023

Married is a fascinating, yet flawed fly-on-the-wall familial drama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2023

It is basically a perfect film.

| Dec 16, 2022

Demme and Squyres devote enough of the film's runtime to the wooly, recognizable chaos of a normal wedding that it puts the sore personal issues lurking in the background into stark relief.

| Feb 25, 2020

It's easy to throw around the word masterpiece, particularly when any film that deviates from Hollywood's well-trodden path comes as so much of a relief. But, in its own small and unassuming way, Rachel Getting Married is just that.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2019

By trimming away excess to an almost Dogma 95 degree of austerity, Demme and screenwriter Jenny Lumet...offer us a penetrating look into a deeply wounded family.

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

A moving and reassuring experience if ever there was one, feels like a warm welcome home.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2019

The wedding scene, when it finally comes, seems to go on forever, with nothing really happening beyond an endless parade of dancers and musicians.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 12, 2018

This is a movie about emotional displacement during a celebration of unity, and the dissonance is devastating.

| Oct 18, 2018

The movie is one of the freshest, most original pictures to come out of Hollywood in a long time.

| Dec 16, 2017

I have been blown away by this movie...and not in a good way.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 12, 2017

[Jonathan] Demme plays with the style like a new toy, but the sensibility recalls his early ensemble films. He brings an inclusiveness and a sense of community to the film and gives characters we may only meet once a lived-in quality.

| Aug 26, 2017

Aside from this lovely façade of racial harmony, your picture is really just another trite chick flick about sisterhood.

| Oct 7, 2015

If your image of Anne Hathaway is still that of a cute ingénue, then you'll be shocked by her blistering performance as a wayward junkie emerging from rehab to attend her sister's wedding in Jonathan Demme's documentary-style family drama

| Sep 7, 2013

It's a common tale told like we've never heard it before. It's the melodrama Robert Altman never got to make. It's wonderful.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 22, 2013

Like a family reunion with its share of embarrassing moments, it may be worth attending all the same.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 9, 2012

Rachel Getting Married is an extraordinary achievement.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Scarily real.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2010

Pulsates with life

| Aug 26, 2009