The melting-pot of genres aside, The Wedding Guest is worth a look based on its steady hand, a pair of strong lead performances, and a rousing musical score, but really needed that one thing to bring it all together.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

His controversial nudes and other graphic images are here, yet the film itself feels conventional and tepid.

| Oct 28, 2020

A meditative yet thrilling genre bender.

| Oct 1, 2020

From the second half on, the film is lost as a tourist without a passport, abandoning the sense of intrigue and mystery to give way to a conventional love story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 28, 2020

For a cross-continental thriller, The Wedding Guest is truly rote in composition and tone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2020

In the end, the screenplay is the letdown, hewing too closely to generic convention.

| Mar 24, 2020

The story feels realistic in a way that this sort of noir material doesn't, always... They're human, and I rooted for them.

| Jan 7, 2020

Basically, it's Double Indemnity... I thoroughly enjoyed this film.

| Sep 20, 2019

Something you will have to seek out, but Michael Winterbottom is always worth seeking out.

| Jul 25, 2019

Director Michael Winterbottom seems to be too interested in psychology to be able to deliver an effective action thriller. However, great leads and an air of mystery hold your attention until the bitter end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2019

More than anything, this wiry thriller works as a homage to the neo-noir genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2019

Despite good performances and an interesting milieu, The Wedding Guest doesn't deliver as an exciting genre piece or thought-provoking drama. Michael Winterbottom is a master in many areas but the thriller seems beyond him this time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2019

The performances are perfectly solid and it always runs smoothly, but the film itself seems to take its leave of us with a shrug.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2019

The Wedding Guest has all the right pieces there but fails to pull together into quite the finished product the high standards of its individual components suggest.

| Jun 23, 2019

Depending on your expectations, this deliberately slow-paced thriller might serve as a satisfying "I do" or a disappointing "I don't"

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 10, 2019

While Dev Patel brings the best performance possible given what he had to work with, it's hard to feel empathy or root for any characters in a story that never really knows what it wants to be.

| May 4, 2019

Patel works harder to hide his sex appeal in The Wedding Guest than the director does to make it an enticing film.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 30, 2019

The film works surprisingly well.

| Apr 3, 2019

A serviceable, low-key kidnap caper that turns out to be more of a travelogue than a thriller.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 25, 2019

Winterbottom's confident technique holds us for only half the running time of The Wedding Guest, a flimsy thriller about a tight-lipped lone wolf possibly named Jay.

| Mar 21, 2019