Table 19
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: March 3, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
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6
Mixed:
12
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireChris Hewitt (1)Apr 10, 2017
Overcoming a shaky start, this low-budget rom-dram rewards patience, with a fine cast delivering strong work. Accept the invitation. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeTom RussoMar 2, 2017
Kudrow and Robinson are intriguing casting and they get some sharp Bickersons material, but the movie unconvincingly shorthands how they got together. And Revolori’s horndog just feels like the film coasting on his quirky persona from “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMar 2, 2017
The movie is pleasant enough thanks to Kendrick and co-stars, especially Merchant's daft mannerisms and Squibb's matronly spunk. It's solely their attention to the project holding ours. Read full review
63
Rolling StoneDavid FearMar 3, 2017
A tonally uneven mishmash of Wes Anderson quirk, John Cassavetes guts-spilling and The Breakfast Club, all of which somehow manages to dampen the talents of its crack ensemble cast. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMar 3, 2017
Table 19 also feels the need to be a romantic comedy in which all's well that ends well, and it's here that the movie fails most conspicuously. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 1, 2017
Tiny profundities, clever twists and lots of giggles are the hallmarks of Table 19, a wedding comedy with on-the-nose casting and slight, uneven charms. Read full review
58
The PlaylistWill AshtonMar 2, 2017
In his first narrative feature in 10 years, Blitz doesn’t find the comfortable balance between self-conscious weirdness and overpowering emotional resonance seen throughout his other, better works. It’s not an outright disaster, but it’s not the shining success it should’ve been. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 9, 2017
Table 19 is an odd little movie, and a frustrating one. Read full review
50
The Film StageChelsey GrassoMar 3, 2017
While most of Table 19 is a flop, director Jeffrey Blitz does sometimes graze the surface of what could have been an outside-the-norm approach. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Nathalie AtkinsonMar 2, 2017
RSVP: Decline with regret. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyMar 2, 2017
Slight even by the wafer-thin standards of the wedding rom-com genre, writer-director Jeffrey Blitz’s Table 19 offers a couple of mild chuckles, six actors who’ve all been far better elsewhere, and a mercifully brief running time. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonMar 2, 2017
If being seated at Table 19 is a drag, watching the film of the same name is worse. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 1, 2017
Blitz, however, brings no visual snap to Table 19’s proceedings, and maintains a distant relationship with its characters. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschMar 1, 2017
Mixing touchy-feely, sub-Sundance quirk, a studio comedy’s penchant for pratfalls and dick jokes, and unabashed John Hughes nostalgia, the film crowds its leading lady with a busy ensemble and too much plot. Read full review
50
TheWrapRobert AbeleMar 1, 2017
When Table 19 tries to be a goofy humiliation comedy, it’s barely engaging. (The pratfalls are numerous and laugh-free.) But when it settles down into something like an indie ensemble about disappointment and the comfort of strangers, Blitz finds a more effortless tone. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMar 1, 2017
And yes, it’s as tired as “The Breakfast Club remade with adults” implies. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeApr 3, 2017
The gags here ought to have been put out of their misery and the we’re-all-in-it-together bonding between the kooks of table 19 is just painful. Read full review
40
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlMar 2, 2017
Everything you would expect happens, but little of it is funny or affecting. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryMar 2, 2017
The story takes a couple of sharp turns, ultimately revealing that it isn’t a romantic comedy after all, but a shambling drama with a few mildly amusing pratfalls. Read full review
33
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerMar 2, 2017
It’s a genuine drag to watch talented actors struggle through tepid material, and Table 19 offers this more readily than it does its laughs or its pathos. Read full review
33
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 1, 2017
Blitz manages to land the occasional punchline, but the smattering of decent jokes only call further attention to the film’s complete lack of rhythm. Read full review
30
We Got This CoveredRobert Yaniz Jr.Mar 9, 2017
Positioned as a quirky antidote to Hollywood wedding comedies, the awkward, tonally inconsistent Table 19 ultimately turns out to be more of the same. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 2, 2017
Table 19 is so awkwardly structured and tonally off-kilter that its moments of catharsis feel wholly unearned. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 2, 2017
The movie is choking on fumes before it’s even had the chance to begin. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 1, 2017
Almost everything that happens in this movie rings cloyingly false. It wants to make you laugh and cry, but you may be too busy cringing. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithMar 2, 2017
Congratulations are in order to Table 19: This comedy about the random losers stuck together at a wedding reception actually, uncannily, creates an experience as dull, awkward and excruciating as the thing it mocks. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 2, 2017
This is how bad Table 19 gets: At a certain point in the movie, there is absolutely no reason that any of the characters would remain at the wedding or anywhere near it. So the movie devises a false reason to keep them in the general vicinity. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayMar 1, 2017
Each of Table 19‘s faint glimmers of grace are overwhelmed by elements of general spatial and narrative incompetence. Read full review
20
The GuardianJordan HoffmanMar 1, 2017
After the unnatural way it plops this gruesome group in their social Siberia, it goes from (alleged) comedy to serious drama with all the subtlety of a 10-year-old playing Mario Kart. Read full review
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