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

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 12, 2017

The pace never slackens, the prattle is relentless. And in the end I was moved.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2009

Hathaway's performance has been deservedly nominated for an Oscar. Whether or not she wins, here's hoping the associated kudos saves her from ever having to do another Bride Wars.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2009

Demme...allows events to meander at times, but his cast is deft and emotionally direct.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 13, 2009

One of Hollywood's forgotten masters and one of its brightest new actresses team for what could well be an Oscar wild card.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2009

If anyone can claw the Oscar statuette from Kate Winslet's eager hands, it's likely to be Anne Hathaway for her brittle, emotionally ragged performance as a recovering drug addict.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2009

I found these heart-on-sleeve sequences really charming and open, and the people in them looked like real human beings and not actors - overemotional, perhaps, but overemotional in the way real people are at real weddings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2009

It's not Demme's most polished film, granted - but dysfunction is all the more piercing when you don't put a gloss on it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2009

You'll be very glad you were invited because this is a friendly, unpretentious bash, with not a meringue dress in sight. The speeches are funny, the music is ace and the mood falls just the right side of sentimental mushiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2009

The film, like the shindig, ends up dissolving in a schmaltzy brew of make-do-and-mend, complete with a sari-clad wedding accompanied by multi-ethnic music, whose PC touchy-feeliness one hopes is a joke but fears is not.

| Jan 23, 2009

It's Altman-esque, in good and bad ways, though by the end I confess I felt like the traditional mother of the bride, my eyes filling up helplessly even as I begged, "no more".

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2009

It's a tough but rewarding watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2009

Director Jonathan Demme, who says he wanted to make "the most beautiful home movie ever made", didn't rehearse scenes before filming. He and Hathaway, as much as Lumet, deserve praise for creating a pariah at once close-to-home and unique.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 23, 2009

It's a successful experiment that leaves you with a mix of hope and despair. To the lovers, best wishes. To the lonely, our sympathies.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 24, 2008

By the time you leave the theater, you feel like you were one of the guests. I, for one, was happy for the invitation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 24, 2008

No doubt it was fun assembling so many close associates, but like Kym, Demme doesn't know when enough is enough for those who aren't part of the family circle.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

The question before us is: When exactly did Jonathan Demme lose his sense of humor?

| Oct 18, 2008

Hathaway vaults several stages along in her career with an intense yet sympathetic turn as the deeply-troubled, acid-tongued Kym.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Hathaway, DeWitt, Irwin and especially Winger are working at a very high level. So is their director. His intuition regarding how to film this particular milestone event, and the stories unfolding in the margins, turned out to be just right.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Rachel Getting Married is at its best in scenes featuring Hathaway's mercurial character. It's a triumphant and darkly nuanced role for her and a departure from the more lighthearted comedic performances she has given.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008