Marry Me
Universal Pictures | Release Date: February 11, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 46 Critic Reviews
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88
RogerEbert.comNell MinowFeb 11, 2022
Yes, the script might as well have been written by an algorithm to hit every rom-com beat, from the meet-cute to the magical connection to the setback to the happy ending, but it deserves extra credit for what it avoids. There are no silly misunderstandings, contrived situations, or cartoonishly awful people. Read full review
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Paste MagazineSydney UrbanekFeb 11, 2022
Marry Me shapes up as a two-hour ode to rom-coms themselves, which have famously suffered a bit of a downturn in recent years. Read full review
82
PolygonPetrana RadulovicFeb 11, 2022
The movie isn’t the most comedic or innovative addition to the romantic comedy genre, but it is sweet romantic fluff. Occasionally, it falls into the pitfalls of the genre by introducing fabricated tension that the rest of the film doesn’t really justify. But ultimately, it still checks off all the boxes it should. Read full review
75
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 10, 2022
Good on J.Lo for protecting the integrity of flighty rom-coms. Every movie need not be so serious and socially conscious. Read full review
71
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 10, 2022
Quotation forthcoming. Read full review
70
Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesFeb 15, 2022
In the end, Marry Me is funny and worth watching. Read full review
70
The New YorkerRichard BrodyFeb 14, 2022
If “Marry Me” plays with the obvious and brings it to obvious conclusions, its actors nonetheless invest its gestures and its dialogue, its broad lines of action and its closeup incarnations, with the spark of surprise. Read full review
70
TimeStephanie ZacharekFeb 10, 2022
When did everything, including our expectations, get shrunk so small? We can ask more of romantic comedies, and there’s no shame in yearning for spectacle and glamour, too: J. Lo rising from a foamy faux ocean like a showbiz deep-sea goddess, anyone? Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanFeb 10, 2022
Those hoping the film might push the genre to its most extravagant limits may be surprised at how (relatively) low-key their love story ends up being. But sometimes that’s the most pleasurable kind of fairy tale — one so close to convincing, you can forget for a spell that it’s all just a dream. Read full review
67
ColliderCarly LaneApr 6, 2022
For some, this film could miss the mark; for others, it could be exactly the comfort viewing that's needed, but overall, Marry Me merits more of a "sure, okay" in response rather than a resounding yes. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakFeb 10, 2022
It helps, too, that the music is good (Kat and Bastian sing a lot, each song being plot-specific considering they’re writing about their love and its demise), the integration of social media effective (Kat’s life is online and Charlie still uses a flip phone), and the inclusion of Lou and the kids as a way to see both Kat’s and Charlie’s hearts beautifully tears down their defenses as well as ours where accepting this “whirlwind” (it is months, not days) at face value. Read full review
67
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerFeb 10, 2022
It’s better than it could be, but it could have been great. Read full review
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IndieWireKate ErblandFeb 10, 2022
But while that stew sounds familiar, Marry Me takes almost too long to get really cracking, with both romance and laughs in short supply, until a mercifully charming final act. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 11, 2022
Marry Me isn’t good enough to transcend the limitations of the genre but it’s a passably enjoyable throwback to the heyday of rom-coms. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchKatie WalshFeb 10, 2022
Though the situation is far from realistic, the dynamically directed and swiftly paced Marry Me remains emotionally grounded, which is crucial to the execution. Read full review
63
The Associated PressLindsey BahrFeb 10, 2022
Marry Me hangs on Lopez who is as glowing and glamorous as ever. Lopez, as they say, understood the assignment. Read full review
63
The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldFeb 10, 2022
As you have probably seen a movie or two before, you know where this is going. But Lopez’s glossy sweetness and Wilson’s dad-jokes charm blend amiably together, and Marry Me glides along smoothly, full of pop songs and earnestness and very expensive-looking hair. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 10, 2022
An engaging if undemanding romantic outing, newfangled enough to be social media-current, old fashioned enough to warrant bringing the whole family. Just remember to brush your teeth afterwards. Read full review
60
NMENick LevineMar 4, 2022
Lopez and Wilson are so right in their roles that the film’s ropier moments are easily forgotten. It’s a quintessential J.Lo movie that makes you wonder why she doesn’t make them more often. Read full review
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The AtlanticDavid SimsFeb 14, 2022
We’re in silly–rom-com territory, and you simply have to accept every ludicrous development with calm rationality. Marry Me is a revived artifact from a time when Hollywood regularly churned out syrupy nonsense about people kissing under the most unlikely of circumstances. The presence of Lopez, once a reigning queen of the genre, only helps underline what a throwback Marry Me is. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreFeb 11, 2022
For all that it has been positioned as the comeback of the rom-com queen, Marry Me isn’t really a return to form for the genre. Instead, it aims to have things both ways, to have the glamour and the buoyant fantasy and to also be more textured in its treatment of its characters and their relationship. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 10, 2022
In the end, Marry Me can’t wed its conflicting ambitions, resulting in a likeable picture that’s hard to love. Read full review
60
Screen RantRachel LaBonteFeb 10, 2022
Marry Me could've gone deeper with some aspects and laid off the musical numbers a little bit, but it will still be the perfect movie for anyone looking for some romance this Valentine's Day. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraFeb 10, 2022
It’s a fun premise, one that this treats seriously, but it never quite reaches the highest levels of the genre. Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanFeb 10, 2022
The bar for rom-coms is not high, and this one, ludicrous as it often is, inches over the bar. But I would no more call it a good movie than I’d pretend fast food is high in nutrients. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 10, 2022
Take one high-concept format, two big stars and lots of songs... this romcom isn’t perfect, but you can’t help rooting for the main couple. Read full review
60
The IndependentAdam WhiteFeb 10, 2022
In an era in which many of Lopez’s romcom peers – namely the Witherspoons and the Bullocks – have pivoted to dark dramas, it’s lovely to see her still banging the drum for a genre that’s never earned the respect it’s deserved. Then again, she knows what that feels like. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubCaroline SiedeFeb 10, 2022
It’s an absolutely outlandish rom-com premise, and though the film tries to lampshade it as such (#whatishappening pops up in the movie’s in-world social media), part of what keeps Marry Me watchable is the dangling question of what kind of hoops the movie is going to jump through to justify keeping up the matrimonial charade. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattFeb 10, 2022
It's all cream puff, a featherweight fairytale too shiny and mild to attempt the better movie about midlife romance and second chances that might have been. Read full review
50
ABC NewsPeter TraversFeb 11, 2022
It’s shameless fluff wrapped in a blanket of bland. You won’t believe a word of this romcom knockoff, but JLo and Owen Wilson work real hard to convince you that love is the answer. Read full review
50
SlateDana StevensFeb 11, 2022
The fact that Marry Me contains anything so formulaic as a third-act separation montage should spell out clearly what you’re getting in for. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 11, 2022
Marry Me is entirely Lopez’s movie, and she’s terrific, right there emotionally in some difficult scenes. But it’s too much Lopez’s movie — too many (lousy) songs, too many dance numbers. A half hour in, there’s no mistaking it: Lopez was one of the producers. Read full review
50
Little White LiesRogan GrahamFeb 11, 2022
Whether you laugh with or at Marry Me, the odds are you will laugh. So that’s a win. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 10, 2022
Beyond the product placement, Marry Me is a high-concept “elevator pitch” movie that is set in present day but feels like a relic of the mid-1990s. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSarah JaneFeb 10, 2022
Marry Me is ... okay. It’s not great. I think I would’ve like it a whole of a hell lot less had it not starred Lopez and Wilson, who are both eminently likable (the supporting cast is okay, too). Read full review
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CNNBrian LowryFeb 10, 2022
Designed to showcase Jennifer Lopez playing a character that could hardly be called a reach, Marry Me trades in the "meet cute" rom-com formula for "meet dumb." Lopez still gets ample opportunities to sing a hummable soundtrack, but even within the genre's parameters, the silly premise deals the movie a blow from which it never entirely recovers. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneNina MetzFeb 10, 2022
I don’t know if this was due to the budget or COVID, but Marry Me feels small in ways that a big commercial rom-com frequently doesn’t and maybe that’s why you can’t fully shake the feeling that this Universal Pictures project is really just a marketing scheme cooked up to highlight Lopez’s real-life music career and some NBCUniversal properties, including the frequent cutaways to a decidedly unfunny Jimmy Fallon, which may be, ironically, the movie at its most honest. Read full review
50
SlashfilmHoai-Tran BuiFeb 10, 2022
Marry Me feels like a satirical movie that missed the joke. It doesn't have a plot as much as a collection of rom-com tropes — Fake marriage! Reverse "Notting Hill"! Evil exes! School mathalons? — and is strung together by the whisper of a narrative structure. But while "Marry Me" is silly, poorly made, and inarguably a bad movie, I had dumb fun. Read full review
42
The PlaylistLauren J. CoatesFeb 10, 2022
Even with a handful of toe-tapping songs written by Maluma and JLo specifically for the film Marry Me is an off-tune rom-com that should make most viewers think twice about saying “I do.” Read full review
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The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeFeb 13, 2022
[A] silly, shallow romcom, which is as thin and predictable as Kat’s tinny pop songs. Read full review
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The New York TimesWesley MorrisFeb 10, 2022
Marry Me is a sad tale that’s too busy leaping from plot point to plot point for Lopez to express anything close to real. It tells a lot and shows nothing. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonFeb 12, 2022
There are a few charming moments between Ms. Lopez and Mr. Wilson that prove beyond doubt that their characters are too intelligent to be in this movie. And yet, here we are. Read full review
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TheWrapCarlos AguilarFeb 10, 2022
It’s better than nothing to mark the cheesy holiday, but the lack of effort shows. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn HornadayFeb 10, 2022
It’s a movie that’s all too happy simply to go through the motions when its star is clearly capable of busting bigger, more interesting moves. Luckily, there are other films in the sea. This is one that Lopez should have left at the altar. Read full review
20
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 10, 2022
Jennifer Lopez is radioactively humourless and Owen Wilson is robotically bland in this stinker. Read full review
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Slant MagazineDiego SemereneFeb 10, 2022
Marry Me plays out as the logical culmination of a multi-hyphenate icon’s indiscriminate commercial voracity. Read full review
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