It’s the warmth of Gladstone’s presence that leaves a lasting impression and endows this remake -- with all its reshufflings, inspired or strained -- with a whisper of something authentically new.

| Apr 25, 2025

This is a film you’d like to embrace—its heart is certainly in the right place—but despite its good intentions it just isn’t very good.... It lacks the charm and simplicity of the original.

| Original Score: C | Apr 24, 2025

If you are going to have such unlikable characters making selfish choices the jokes need to be funnier

| Apr 23, 2025

The Wedding Banquet is a nifty shindig delivering what any reasonable person would want out of a romantic comedy/drama.

| Apr 23, 2025

Not only is this The Wedding Banquet a great and expansive remake that builds upon the spirit of the original, but it’s also its own achievement in the celebration of queer joy for the LGBTQ+ community and simply an entertaining flick.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2025

Whether bound by blood or chosen through love, this cast of characters puts the icing on a slice-of-life that wouldn’t be as sweet without them.

| Apr 23, 2025

The film is more of a wedding buffet than a stodgy, antiquated banquet. The winding through dishes and perusing of relationships is delivered with quick-witted efficiency without losing its main course.

| Apr 22, 2025

Andrew Ahn is a humane filmmaker -- this is his fourth feature, and I think they all really work, capturing not only geographic specificity but also giving you characters who are deep and moving.

| Apr 22, 2025

The cast of “The Wedding Banquet” is its best asset.

| Apr 22, 2025

‘The Wedding Banquet’ serves thoughtful romantic-drama dishes and a few rom-com ones too.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2025

As far as screwball comedies go, Ahn’s “Wedding Banquet” comes off a bit too sitcomlike for its own good, but there are some well-earned moments of heartfelt poignance as bridges are broached and characters bare their souls.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 21, 2025

I think queer APIs will especially appreciate the subtle humor of the movie’s articulation of the fault lines in Chinese and Korean culture and their intersection with contemporary queer culture and identity.

| Apr 21, 2025

Ahn deepens and complicates the dynamics of his central quad of queer found family, and their relationships with their biological family, making his The Wedding Banquet a movie about many kinds of relationship -- communal, parental, romantic and more.

| Apr 21, 2025

From Ahn’s direction down through the script to each and every one of these performances, The Wedding Banquet is so warm it will make your heart glow like E.T.’s and grow like the Grinch’s.

| Apr 21, 2025

The Wedding Banquet deserves to be seen for its celebratory tone, its fine acting – and because it’s really funny.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 21, 2025

It’s a fun, open-hearted picture, and even if it lacks the wistful subtlety of the original, it ends up on the same landing note.

| Apr 21, 2025

The characters could all easily have been one-note, but the performers provide unexpected layers, while also crowd-pleasing with broad laughs. OK, it may be cliché, but the scene where they “de-queer” the girls’ home is very funny.

| Original Score: B | Apr 21, 2025

In a cinematic landscape where queer stories are increasingly rare, The Wedding Banquet has its heart in the right place.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 20, 2025

Bells are ringing with queer love and romance in Andrew Ahn's funny, if formulaic, re-do of 'The Wedding Banquet.'

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 19, 2025

It’s the sweet affection and renewed declarations of love, no matter the acronyms involved, that will endear its complementary place next to Ang Lee’s original.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2025