... a very pretty movie that has no idea how silly it is.

| Feb 8, 2018

Poignant? Only because someone worked pretty hard on this.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 8, 2011

... isn't so much a romantic comedy as a lightweight indie ensemble drama that never quite gels.

| Feb 13, 2011

If only we had a better feel for these people, some reason to care as much as they clearly do, who's to say how satisfying 'The Romantics' might have been?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 24, 2010

The script fails to establish the likability of any of the main characters, which dulls the sense of urgency during the dramatic moments.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2010

What ensues is a couple of days of confession and mild debauchery. It's all sketchy and banal.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2010

As far as missing-bridegroom movies go, this is less inspiring than The Hangover.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 22, 2010

Adapting her novel for the screen, Galt Niederhoffer has improved her own story, tightening the script as well as the cast of characters.

| Sep 21, 2010

The questionable conclusion might not satisfy your need for a definitive finale, but the film doesn't give you much to be satisfied with in the first place.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2010

It's possible that Niederhoffer was too close to her novel to stand back from its excesses. She's made a seriously self-indulgent movie about self-indulgent people.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 13, 2010

Flimsy melodrama, filled with clumsy, hand-held camerawork and turgid, pretentious literary prattle, signifying very little.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 11, 2010

[It] somehow skirts utter loathsomeness by dint of its elegant camerawork and a few finely tuned performances. I'm not suggesting you run out to the theater and see this, but if it comes on cable someday and you have a big pile of laundry to fold...

| Sep 10, 2010

Instead of Rachel Getting Married with an Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway, we get Galt Niederhoffer's misbegotten, miscast snoozefest with Katie Holmes struggling to prove that there is life as an actress while still being Mrs. Tom Cruise.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 10, 2010

Indie wedding drama is too mature for young teens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2010

Has its minor pleasures. But they are too few and far between to warrant sitting through the entire film.

| Sep 10, 2010

With its tart dialogue and its perfect ending, it is sensitive as well as sagacious. It's a rare combination.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 10, 2010

Niederhoffer wears her influences proudly on her sleeve, but crosses that line between homage and mimicry, making it difficult to hear her own voice as a filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3.9/10 | Sep 10, 2010

A middling little movie that tries to trespass on Bergman-Renoir territory and simply isn't adroit enough to pull it off...

Full Review | Sep 10, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2010

A formulaic rom-com with an Ivy League pedigree and a higher-than-average SAT verbal score.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2010