The film is touching as well as funny, and despite a few dud notes, it mostly works very nicely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2025

A very gentle, broad, crowd-pleasing, open-minded dramedy.

| May 14, 2025

Despite some sweet moments and strong on-screen talent, The Wedding Banquet’s off pacing and limited character development mean it ultimately falls flat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 14, 2025

Where The Wedding Banquet really shines is in its characters, not only in its two romantic pairings that feel profoundly real, but also in subverting our expectations of its intergenerational relationships.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2025

This is a broader, more straightforward crowd-pleaser than the first Wedding Banquet, which typically for Lee retained a degree of melancholy and reserve. Sometimes the characters are made to spell out their feelings all too bluntly...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2025

You’re never too old for wedding hijinks or a little tomfoolery, especially in service of a love story.

| May 11, 2025

Director Andrew Ahn does something slightly miraculous in “The Wedding Banquet,” by updating And Lee’s now-classic 1993 gay rom-com for our current moment while maintaining and even deepening its romantic spirit.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 10, 2025

Blending subtle gags and quiet melancholy, the remake offers a fresh, affecting perspective on the story, peppered with loving homages to the original including an updated twist on the infamous banquet scene, now tailored for the Gen Z'ers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2025

The Wedding Banquet old and new may take different paths, but they end with the same conclusion: there is indefatigable strength in the chosen family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 10, 2025

Overly earnest in parts, but warmly affecting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2025

Ahn adds an outrageous — if not entirely unpredictable — twist that could have toppled this delicate house of cards. Yet our central quartet hold things together...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 9, 2025

Director Andrew Ahn makes the story his own, but also hints at three decades of changing social attitudes for those who remember the original film (or indeed the 1990s).

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2025

In reimagining Ang Lee's breakthrough 1993 comedy, director Andrew Ahn works with original cowriter James Schamus to cleverly update the topicality while ramping up the plot's farcical entanglements.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2025

Technically, Wedding Banquet 2025 is a dog’s dinner...It falls to the charming cast to outshine the flimsy material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2025

This film's focus on its female characters is its strength.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2025

A reimagining more than a remake, [Andrew] Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet is a beautiful, dramatic story that takes a more snapshot-into-life approach over the situational comedy mentality the film opens itself up to.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 8, 2025

It is also, quite frankly, a truly charming piece of work that might even out-do the version by the Oscar-winning filmmaker.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2025

In a film as blatantly, and admirably, concerned with reflecting a cultural moment that isn’t rigidly conformed to traditional notions of sexuality and family structure, it’s a shame the story’s rough contours couldn’t speak to it.

| May 3, 2025

This version of The Wedding Banquet proudly walks down the aisle with confident grace and beauteous determination.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 2, 2025

If the original film was about the shame of being gay, this film is about the lingering effects years after the shame subsides.

| May 2, 2025