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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandDestination 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.
- 60The GuardianBenjamin LeeThe GuardianBenjamin LeeThe pair share an easy, spiky chemistry and Reeves in particular shows himself to be surprisingly skilled at delivering such bile-filled dialogue.
- 50Village VoiceDanny KingVillage VoiceDanny KingLevin 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.
- 50VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy NicholsonDestination 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.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNew York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaLevin’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.
- 40Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThere’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.
- 38Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe way Destination Wedding uses misanthropy to augment screwball tropes ends up being its undoing.
- 35Film Journal InternationalStephen WhittyFilm Journal InternationalStephen WhittySlim movies like this live or die based on their personal charm, and the sour Destination Wedding soon wheezes its way into the ICU.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAll 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.
- 30Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenKeanu 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.