Cheerful Weather For The Wedding Reviews

With the critical narrative information delayed until the film's final moments, it's a waiting game for the audience, not unpleasurably spent watching the gorgeous costumes and eccentric behaviour of the family and friends of an anxious bride.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Rice does a fine job of juggling so many characters and moving smoothly among flashbacks without losing sight of the main story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Not to say it isn't an enjoyable diversion. Just that it's also a superficial one.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Entertains intermittently with its stiff-upper-lip community interplay, only truly taking command when it focuses on unspoken desires and stymied confessions.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

A welcome addition to the wedding comedy sub genre, light on its feet and brimming with vivid character portraits.

Full Review | Original Score: 6

A complex, melancholic farce.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A mix of pining, familial farce and sweet summer love story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The film snaps along with dialogue loaded with barbed bon mots

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Finely crafted English period piece works best for those who like their love stories romantically doomed.

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..this costume drama set in the lull between World Wars is drawn from Julia Strachey's 1932 novella (apparently much-loved by Virginia Woolf) and proves to be almost impossibly English.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

If you're seriously white-knuckling for a dose of English Period Countryside Romanticism while waiting for Downton's next season to roll, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding will be like methadone: it's not going to satisfy you, but it may relieve your itch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The film builds up to something that never comes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Period drama has simmering conflict, lacks resolution.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

There's more to period drama than nice frocks and acerbic asides.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A languid film that fizzles from the start.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10

A very mannered but deadly dull period piece drama of partially upended, stuffy social customs, and a ruinous vehicle for the incandescence of Felicity Jones.

Full Review | Original Score: D

What it doesn't have is drama or wisdom or comedy or heat, something to temper the banalities.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Something happened, you see, and someone or other felt something about it. Why that should matter, why we should care, is lost in a string of bons mots, sidelong glances and frocks.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

The glossy appearance and trappings may evoke standard Anglophile nostalgia, but below the veneer is a cynical portrait of bored, shallow Britons halfheartedly going through the motions of a celebration.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5