Rachel Getting Married (2008)

All Critics (189) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (164) | Rotten (29) | DVD (13)

Those who surrender to Demme's disarming, almost participatory technique will find themselves overwhelmed, exhilarated and inspired by the eternal possibilities of cinema.

January 23, 2009 Full Review

Tom Huddlestone

Time Out

Top Critic

Even Hathaway's remarkable, Oscar-worthy performance can't save it.

November 7, 2008 Full Review

Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

Rosemary Dewitt is fantastic.

November 7, 2008 Full Review

Ben Lyons

At the Movies

Top Critic

Rachel Getting Married is a magical wallow in excess, a too-happy, too-sad, too-indulgent plunge into an over-planned wedding.

October 24, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

It's a successful experiment that leaves you with a mix of hope and despair. To the lovers, best wishes. To the lonely, our sympathies.

October 24, 2008 Full Review

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

By the time you leave the theater, you feel like you were one of the guests. I, for one, was happy for the invitation.

October 24, 2008 Full Review

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Like a family reunion with its share of embarrassing moments, it may be worth attending all the same.

April 9, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out Chicago

Rachel Getting Married is an extraordinary achievement.

July 6, 2010 Full Review

Thomas Caldwell

Cinema Autopsy

Pulsates with life

August 26, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Like being forced to sit through an overly long wedding video in the living room of a couple you hardly even know.

August 1, 2009 Full Review

Anders Wotzke

Moviedex

Kym crashes through her family and the weekend, careening off real and imaginary obstacles with a fierce yet still sympathetic rancor. It's the home movie you hope never to see of your life, impeccably filled with color and on-set live music and life and

May 31, 2009 Full Review

Karina Montgomery

Cinerina

Only those who are willing to forego the many imperfections in the loosey-goosey script and Demme's improvisational style will feel the acting makes the film worth seeing.

May 1, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

By the time the Ganesha cake is cut, you're left with the poodle as the only family member worthy of empathy.

April 23, 2009 Full Review

Alicia Potter

Boston Phoenix

The messiness that goes with genuinely flawed and complex people is what makes the film ring so true and cut so deep.

March 29, 2009 Full Review

Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Most noteworthy for Anne Hathaway's absorbing, Oscar-nominated portrayal of a disturbed soul desperate to control the demons derailing her reality.

March 26, 2009 Full Review

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

It's a lovely movie, with abundant charm and no fear of suffering.

March 24, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

...an alternatingly intriguing and maddening cinematic experience...

March 19, 2009 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

This isn't the kind of melodrama where a happy facade is slowly torn away-the tensions are there from the start and no one has illusions that things are nice and rosy.

March 17, 2009 Full Review

Brian Holcomb

CinemaBlend.com

The only real surprise is that someone doesn't break into "Burning Down the House" at the rehearsal dinner.

March 17, 2009 Full Review

Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

When Hathaway and DeWitt are on-camera together, there's a palpable seethe of sibling rivalry that overshadows the wedding, Kym's problems, or even the horrible event that everyone has been trying to put behind them.

March 9, 2009 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

There is a nice collection of extras, which start with two full-length audio commentaries.

March 2, 2009 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Jonathan Demme has struck a brilliant balance here, delivering a film that looks, sounds and feels painfully honest, while making it entertaining as well as deeply truthful.

March 2, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

• 1. Kym Buchman: When I was sixteen, I was babysitting my little brother. And I was, um... I had taken all these Percocet. And I was unbelievably high and I... we had driven over to the park on Lakeshore. And he was in his red socks just running around in these piles of leaves. And, um, he would bury me and I would bury him in the leaves. And he was pretending that he was a train. And so he was charging through the leaves, making tracks, and I was the caboose, and I was, um... so he kept saying, coal, caboose! Coal, caboose! And, um, we were... it was time to go and I was driving home... and... I lost control of the car. And drove off the bridge. And the car went into the lake. And I couldn't get him out of his car seat. And he drowned. And I struggle with God so much, because I can't forgive myself. And I don't really want to right now. I can live with it, but I can't forgive myself. And sometimes I don't want to believe in a God that could forgive me. But I do want to be sober. I'm alive and I'm present and there's nothing controlling me. If I hurt someone, I hurt someone. I can apologize, and they can forgive me... or not. But I can change. And I just wanted to share that and say congratulations that God makes you look up, I'm so happy for you, but if he doesn't, come here. That's all. Thank you.
  – Submitted by Sami A (4 months ago)
• 1. Kym Buchman: I'm Shiva the destroyer and your harbinger of doom for this evening.
  – Submitted by Frances H (7 months ago)
• 1. Kym Buchman: Sisterhood conquers all.
  – Submitted by Frances H (7 months ago)
• 1. Kym Buchman: Seriously, you're so tiny, it's like you're Asian.
  – Submitted by Frances H (7 months ago)
• 1. Rachel Buchman: Paul Buchman likes to say that 'the measure of a great life is not how well loved you are, but how well you love others.'
  – Submitted by Nusfish K (15 months ago)

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