Destination Wedding
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group | Release Date: August 31, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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6
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12
Negative:
5
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75
Chicago TribuneRick BentleySep 6, 2018
The dialogue they deliver is crisp, witty and occasionally biting. Levin's script has the style and rhythms of the kind of romantic comedies of the '40s and '50s when actors like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn used verbal banter like boxing gloves. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNell MinowAug 31, 2018
A lot of people are not going to like Destination Wedding, because the characters never shut up and complain all the time. But I thought it was a hoot. Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves, in their fourth film together, are clearly having a blast, and they won me over. Read full review
75
IndieWireKate ErblandAug 30, 2018
Destination Wedding makes the case that the two-hander isn’t dead, even if it struggles a bit when forced to come to a neat, movie-ready conclusion. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaSep 6, 2018
Watching unpleasant characters onscreen isn't always a fun experience, so casting Reeves and Ryder is genius. They're both full-on movie stars: charismatic, wildly photogenic, the whole nine yards. But they're also good actors, and they make these two neurotic misanthropes quite engaging. Read full review
67
The PlaylistKimber MyersAug 31, 2018
Destination Wedding is bitter, bubbly and ultimately refreshing, the Aperol Spritz to your sickly sweet Amaretto Sour. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 10, 2018
Ultimately, however, the movie is so desperate for a conventional ending that it subverts everything it was willing to try earlier. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Simran HansMay 14, 2019
Writer-director Victor Levin’s caustic take on the romcom works better as a treatise on the genre than as an example of it. The staging of the individual scenes feels like an afterthought, with the stars and script doing all the heavy lifting. Still, the scaffolding is there. Read full review
60
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMay 9, 2019
The short and salty-sweet Destination Wedding is less of a conventional romantic comedy than it is a high-concept chemistry experiment. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeAug 30, 2018
The pair share an easy, spiky chemistry and Reeves in particular shows himself to be surprisingly skilled at delivering such bile-filled dialogue. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattAug 30, 2018
The script, by writer-director Victor Levin (Survivor’s Remorse, Mad About You) comes on like a rom-com David Mamet freight train; its verbal turns are so wildly overwritten that all the actors can really do is hold on to the wheel well, racing through reams of ratatat dialogue. But Ryder and Reeves surrender to it gamely, and sprinkle a sort of movie-star pixie dust over the too-muchness of the text. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 7, 2018
Writer-director Victor Levin takes an interesting although ultimately tedious and distracting approach to nearly every scene. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweSep 2, 2018
While Levin’s writing is sharp and observant, it’s also often overwrought and eventually just plain tiresome. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 31, 2018
It should be said right off that this provocative off-black comedy, starring the Gen-Xer’s dream cast of Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, is not for everyone. And the people it is for will have to be in the mood. Read full review
50
VarietyAmy NicholsonAug 30, 2018
Destination Wedding barely holds together as a coherent film. It’s too callous for coos, too chipper to examine the dark corners of the soul. Yet it works as a valentine to old-fashioned star power — two modern legends, older if no wiser, daring the audience to somehow love them for all their faults, and on that level, somehow succeeding. Read full review
50
Village VoiceDanny KingAug 30, 2018
Levin at times seems rather too taken with the verbosity of his own dialogue, but here and there, his quips and situations match perfectly with his actors’ sensibilities. Read full review
40
The GuardianCath ClarkeMay 10, 2019
A couple of scenes in Destination Wedding fall so calamitously flat I had the disconcerting sensation I was watching the film dubbed in a foreign language or for a spoofed internet meme. Read full review
40
Rolling StonePeter TraversAug 30, 2018
There’s a simple reason why it’s hard to imagine why anyone, much less everybody, would willingly spend time with Frank and Lindsay in this agonizing endurance test of a movie. They’re no damn fun. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaAug 30, 2018
Levin’s dialogue is relentless. Every line and retort is a punch line, and every punch line more or less amounts to Lindsey and Frank telling each other how much they stink. Read full review
38
Slant MagazinePat BrownAug 30, 2018
The way Destination Wedding uses misanthropy to augment screwball tropes ends up being its undoing. Read full review
35
Film Journal InternationalStephen Whitty Aug 30, 2018
Slim movies like this live or die based on their personal charm, and the sour Destination Wedding soon wheezes its way into the ICU. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenAug 30, 2018
Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder may have worked together in the past (most notably in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”), but Destination Wedding, a painfully indulgent anti-romantic comedy about a pair of miserable misanthropes who bond over their shared contempt of the universe, forces their screen chemistry well beyond any reasonable limits of tolerance. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAug 30, 2018
All right, then, let’s rip off the Band-Aid: Destination Wedding is torture. And not just because this would-be romantic comedy is grating, cheap-looking and a mighty drag: it also turns two seasoned, likable actors into characters you’ll want to throttle long before the credits roll. Read full review
20
EmpireLiz BeardsworthMay 9, 2019
Reeves and Ryder work very hard to make Destination Wedding work, but deeply unlikeable characters and a clunky script means there’s no escaping the fact it’s a disappointing misfire. Read full review
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