Destination Wedding
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group | Release Date: August 31, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
12
Negative:
5
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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
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