Shotgun Wedding isn’t the worst rom-com ever made, but it’s the type of generically terrible offering that serves as a reminder of why my beloved genre fell out of fashion — a fate that Jennifer Lopez herself may be partially responsible for.

| Original Score: D+ | Feb 21, 2023

While the director Jason Moore spends much of the film demonstrating how good Lopez looks at 53, Coolidge steals every scene she is in as the mother of the groom (“when I’m in formal wear I like to pee standing up”).

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2023

This Wedding clearly wasn't meant to be a masterpiece, but even as mid-winter fluff it feels like a rush job.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 1, 2023

At its best, "Shotgun Wedding" has the snap of Howard Hawks screwball romances like "Bringing Up Baby."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 28, 2023

The direction by Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect) is cake-knife sharp, while Mark Hammer’s script never wastes a gag, especially one that involves pineapples. But what really helps is the casting of sleeper agents in the supporting roles...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 28, 2023

An action movie/romantic comedy hybrid that’s too violent for comedy fans and not thrilling enough for thrill seekers. It’s not romantic at all, despite the best efforts of Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2023

Once the plot kicks in and the characters separate (and settle down), “Shotgun Wedding” becomes much more entertaining, highlighted by the comic push-and-pull between its two leads, Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel.

| Jan 27, 2023

This is a slapdash effort on most every level, seemingly sold almost entirely on the notion of watching Lopez run through the jungle in a tattered wedding dress.

| Jan 27, 2023

The film is mutinously bored with weddings, which is a start, and has a punchy aerial climax that’s much better value than the average first dance. In a sickly-sweet genre, it’s almost bracingly sour.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2023

Fights and explosions fail to perk up the rom-com veteran’s latest mediocre walk to the altar.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 27, 2023

There is a serious theme under all the silliness: no couple is perfect. We all do things that other people, even those who love us, find annoying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2023

The balance of humor and action is uneven, and it does not even try to make sense. But the overall tone is lighthearted, andnLopez is, as always, hard to resist.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 27, 2023

... There’s lots of automatic gunfire and grenade-throwing and other mayhem that feels out of place any way you slice it — oh yes, knives too! — and this rom-com doesn’t end up feeling very romantic OR comedic.

| Original Score: C | Jan 27, 2023

The script, by Mark Hammer, falls under the category of modern screwball, or perhaps it's a pirate romance, with actual violence on top. Either way, it's neither fully one way or the other. There's enough to cut a good trailer, but precious little more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2023

All the charm and style in the world, and J.Lo has more than anyone, can’t make up for the bizarre tonal imbalance of Shotgun Wedding, a movie too violent to be funny and too funny (in the odd, weird sense) to be fun.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2023

It navigates its story with an apathetic level of spirit in its moment-to-moment sequencing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 26, 2023

Lopez stars opposite Josh Duhamel: not exactly Clark Gable, but Lopez makes it work. She always does.

| Jan 26, 2023

A romcom revelation, this ain’t – but it’s an entertaining vehicle for the ever-charismatic Jennifer Lopez, and frankly, that’s enough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2023

If you can put your cynicism aside, RSVP “yes” to Shotgun Wedding.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 26, 2023

The only thing wrong with “Shotgun Wedding” is that it isn’t any good. Aside from that, it’s a pleasant experience.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 24, 2023