Crazy Rich Asians
Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 15, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 51 Critic Reviews
Positive:
47
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Time OutDanny YuAug 8, 2018
It’s a reinvented romantic comedy, sassy and fun, that doesn’t necessarily rely on obvious tropes and is worth the wait. Read full review
90
SlateInkoo KangAug 8, 2018
Emotionally layered, culturally specific, and frequently hilarious, Crazy Rich is a transportive delight, with food montages to die for (the film offers a splendid showcase of Singapore’s justly celebrated street-food scene) and a wedding processional so exquisite I started crying at its sheer beauty. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAug 15, 2018
Wu quite simply is a stunner. Best known for playing the tough-love matriarch from ABC’s "Fresh off the Boat," she betters the book version of Rachel by making her earthier, steelier, and more playful. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperAug 15, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians glimmers and sparkles, gives us characters to root for, and is pure escapist fantasy fun. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloAug 15, 2018
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable, even if most of us are not married to or dating secret millionaires. And though the film may feel overstuffed, it all works in service of its story. Read full review
88
USA TodayBrian TruittAug 13, 2018
It’s breezy and hilarious yet offers enough heartfelt gravitas to give the feel-good date movie needed emotional heft. Read full review
88
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiAug 8, 2018
The rom-com ain’t dead yet. Crazy Rich Asians is a defibrillator for a genre that flatlined ages ago. This heartwarming, well-acted — and decadent — film takes you back to the greatest hits of Nancy Meyers, Richard Curtis and Nora Ephron. Read full review
85
IGNJenna BuschAug 14, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians stuns with its glamour, and gives us the sort of vicarious wish fulfillment that is the appeal of Cinderella stories the world over. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeAug 13, 2018
Like the best musicals, Crazy Rich Asians joyously embraces a heightened aesthetic while keeping its story grounded in real emotional truth. Read full review
83
IndieWireKate ErblandAug 8, 2018
Fans of Kwan’s books will not be disappointed by Chu’s adaptation, as “Crazy Rich Asians” lovingly brings to life some of the novel’s standout scenes, even as Chiarelli and Lim’s screenplay snips away subplots that detract from Rachel’s journey. Read full review
80
Little White LiesPatrick SproullAug 28, 2025
It may fall prey to the odd awkward joke or saccharine moment, but Crazy Rich Asians is a blast from start to finish. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Simran HansSep 15, 2018
To evaluate it solely on the basis of representation is to do it a disservice and to further narrow the parameters of how we’re allowed to talk about movies that feature “diverse” actors. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawSep 13, 2018
[A] highly entertaining and outrageously over-the-top Cinderella soap opera. Read full review
80
EmpireOlly RichardsSep 3, 2018
It’s way over the top in its style, which is a good thing, but grounded with realistic, loveable characters. This is a romcom milestone and the best thing to happen to the genre in years. It’s crazy good. Read full review
80
TimeStephanie ZacharekAug 16, 2018
The two leads, Wu and Golding, are charming and genuine, and the supporting performers around them keep the whole mad story spinning—this thing is never boring. Read full review
80
VoxAlissa WilkinsonAug 15, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians is fun, funny, gorgeous, and swoon-worthy. It’s got a terrific cast, glamorous locations, witty jokes, and a story with a lot of heart. And on top of all that, it may actually succeed in proving to Hollywood that both Asian-centered stories and romantic comedies deserve much more attention. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzAug 13, 2018
What's most enjoyable about Crazy Rich Asians is that, while it never forfeits its sense of responsibility, it also never forfeits its sense of fun. Chu wants you to slobber over the settings, to imagine what a life like this might be like — and to ensure that being Asian is a part of that. Read full review
80
The GuardianClara MaeAug 13, 2018
With a premise straight from classic literature and fairytales, Crazy Rich Asians is a transportive romcom about a poor girl who finds her Prince Charming – and is then thrown into the extravagant, glitzy, catty world of the Singapore elite. Read full review
80
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 13, 2018
It’s the war between the bonds of family vs. the pull of wealth — a global theme across wide borders and cultures — that gives the film heft. But even when the script drifts into moralizing, it’s the emotions that hold sway. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlan NgAug 8, 2018
The only excuse you have not to see Crazy Rich Asians is because you hate love. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangAug 8, 2018
In a crisp, authoritative, sometimes startlingly vulnerable performance that never lapses into dragon-lady stereotype, Yeoh brilliantly articulates the unique relationship between Asian parents and their children, the intricate chain of love, guilt, devotion and sacrifice that binds them for eternity. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAug 8, 2018
It's both a relief and a pleasure to report that this high-gloss rom-com — based on the bestselling novel of a Singaporean author, directed by an Asian-American and featuring an all-Asian cast — is such a thoroughly captivating exploration of the rarefied question of whether true love can conquer head-spinning wealth. Read full review
80
TheWrapCarlos AguilarAug 8, 2018
Ultimately, Crazy Rich Asians doesn’t need to subvert all its predictable elements, because even if we know where it’s going, we’ve never seen that story told this way. Read full review
75
UproxxVince ManciniAug 16, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians is just really easy to watch. It’s formulaic, but doesn’t cheat; has insanely low stakes, but transparently so. It’s a kitschy pop song done very well. Read full review
75
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerAug 15, 2018
The romantic comedy beats are familiar enough, but the ways in which the film attacks them gives it a subversive shade that nicely compliments an otherwise straightforward fish-out-of-water story. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleAug 15, 2018
That Crazy Rich Asians is a rom-com where the mothers are its most vital co-stars is one of the movie’s best attributes. Though some of the satirical edges of Kwan’s book have been smoothed down, it remains a love story more about immigrant identity and Chinese heritage than romance. Read full review
75
Paste MagazineKyle TurnerAug 14, 2018
In its keen and sensitive and moving observations about the uncertainty in being Asian-American, it’s always drifting, and Wu’s incredible ability to convey all those ideas wordlessly is what makes the film more than just about a material China girl. Read full review
75
Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonAug 14, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians is a romantic comedy and a fairy tale, and it helps to keep the latter in mind as you ramp up suspension of disbelief to necessary levels.
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 14, 2018
Like the finest forebears of the rom-com genre — including its urtext, “Four Weddings and a Funeral” — Crazy Rich Asians indulges in the escapist pleasures of aspirational wealth, obscene consumerism and invidious judge-iness. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineDerek SmithAug 13, 2018
The filmmakers’ ability to seamlessly explore rapidly shifting Chinese cultural norms within the context of the classic trope of a mother who’s hostile toward her son’s partner is the film’s most impressive feat. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubAug 11, 2018
The end result is flawed, but also funny, heartfelt and inclusive movie making. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldAug 9, 2018
Is it as good as the book? No. Did it make me happy? Oh yes, and how nice to be reminded what a gift a joyful rom-com can be. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAug 8, 2018
If the storyline is strictly something old and borrowed, though, a peek at the crazy-rich rainbow of Asian experience — even one as razzle-dazzlingly too-much as this one — feels not just new, but way overdue. Read full review
75
Vanity FairRichard LawsonAug 8, 2018
Jon M. Chu’s film certainly delivers on the lavish trappings of the former interpretation, but if the latter is meant to be the mood of the film, it falls a little short. I wanted things to be a little crazier, I guess, wild high-society intrigue staged with the satisfying bite of mean, wicked satire. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternAug 16, 2018
Bright, buoyant and hilarious, though far from flawless, this romantic comedy, directed by Jon M. Chu and based on the popular novel by Kevin Kwan, is also a cultural milestone. Read full review
70
The AtlanticDavid SimsAug 15, 2018
Though Crazy Rich Asians is rightly being lauded for its groundbreaking nature (as the first studio film with an Asian cast set in the present day since 1993’s The Joy Luck Club), it’s also a charming throwback to the kind of story Hollywood doesn’t tell much anymore: the high-society comedy, rife with family drama, acidic one-liners, and indomitable female characters. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAlana MohamedAug 14, 2018
For all its carnival-like antics, Crazy Rich Asians is all too aware of its own spectacle. Read full review
70
ScreenCrushMatt SingerAug 14, 2018
Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians is good, though, even if it is a little overcrowded. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottAug 14, 2018
Without betraying any overt nostalgia, Crazy Rich Asians casts a fond eye backward as well as Eastward, conjuring a world defined by hierarchies and prescribed roles in a way that evokes classic novels and films. Read full review
70
The New YorkerRichard BrodyAug 13, 2018
The vigorous cast enlivens the conventional action, and brilliant comedic sallies by Awkwafina, as Rachel’s college friend, and Nico Santos, as Nick’s cousin, knock it for a loop. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaAug 8, 2018
Luckily, Crazy Rich Asians is, at its heart, a fish-out-of-water story, and it has a lot more going for it than its literal money shots. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 8, 2018
Director Jon M. Chu (“Step Up 2: The Streets”) has crafted a broadly appealing charmer in which practically anyone can identify with Wu’s character as she’s whisked into this elite milieu. Read full review
63
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenAug 20, 2018
It’s at once deeply formulaic and—in terms of the faces and places we usually see on movie screens in the West—refreshingly unfamiliar. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAug 15, 2018
Maybe the key is how nicely self-aware the move is. On the soundtrack, for example, we hear both “Material Girl” and “Money (That’s What I Want)” sung in Mandarin. Everything’s so over the top it’s a bit weightless, which in this context is a compliment. Read full review
63
Film Journal InternationalDavid NohAug 14, 2018
Chu is definitely not an actor’s director, being far more concerned with splashy spectacle than intimate human emotions, and often you can feel scenes go slightly dead, with his performers likely called upon to improv their lines and motivation as best they can. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 14, 2018
Granted, one wouldn’t expect a modern-day fairy tale to be socially conscious but there’s something so overt about this materialism that it stains the overall experience. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 10, 2018
Crazy Rich Asians puts its emphasis on “Crazy Rich,” and “Asians,” when a little more “Crazy” would get us through its glitzy two hours with less tedium and more style. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonAug 8, 2018
To be sure, there are meaningful observations here about the ways that money warps relationships and how children struggle with their heritage. But by trying so hard to concoct a blowout party, the movie exhausts and frustrates as much as it enlightens and delights. Read full review
58
Original-CinLiam LaceyAug 15, 2018
The characters of Rachel and Nick are charming but their relationship feels backgrounded by numbing amounts of money porn, stilted melodrama, and often-strained comedy. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorAug 15, 2018
As the obscenities of wealth accumulate while a large cast of Asian and Eurasian actors render their many silly characters, the source of the laughter becomes troubling. Read full review
33
The Film StageRyan SwenAug 16, 2018
As a movie that has positioned itself as the first in a hypothetical wave of representation, Crazy Rich Asians is blatantly diminished by its status. Such a burden is too much for almost any movie, especially one as intellectually, aesthetically, and sociologically featherweight as this, but its flaws are magnified in the face of its goals. Read full review
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