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Marry Me

2022

Kat Coiro

Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson, Maluma, Sarah Silverman ...

4.5

1,831

Romance. Comedy A pop superstar is jilted by her rock-star fiancé moments before their wedding at Madison Square Garden, so she marries a random guy from the crowd instead.

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Jennifer Lopez is radioactively humourless and Owen Wilson is robotically bland in this stinker (...) Everything about the film is machine-tooled and algorithmically calculated (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"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."
		Helen O'Hara Empire	"Why finish your romcom with a huge wedding when you can start with one instead? It's a fun premise, one that this treats seriously, but it never quite reaches the highest levels of the genre (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Angie Han The Hollywood Reporter	"It builds its central relationship around chemistry just sweet and sincere enough to make us eagerly buy into it for 112 minutes."
		Lauren Coates The Playlist	"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'."
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Although Lopez no doubt intimately understands her character’s struggles with fame, the film does fall victim to the genre’s worst cliches"
		Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Marry meh"
		Carly Lane Collider	"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."
		Brian Lowry CNN	"Even within the genre's parameters, the silly premise deals the movie a blow from which it never entirely recovers."
		Jeff Ewing Forbes	"It’s a charming enough journey thanks to talented performers that may just scratch that romantic comedy itch."
		Carlos Aguilar The Wrap	"Jennifer Lopez should have left this script at the altar. This innocuous rom-com highlights some great new songs, but a megastar like Lopez deserves better than this bland concoction"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"The ways in which the pair are scrutinized and divided are not interesting (...) but how they navigate their way through it is. That’s what’s romantic about all of this."
		Nina Metz Chicago Tribune	"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 (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Rachel Labonte Screen Rant	"Lopez and Wilson are a surprisingly delightful pair and there is more heart to their onscreen meeting than the premise would suggest (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Todd McCarthy Deadline	"'Marry Me' isn’t remotely funny or charming enough to make you even fantasize that this relationship could ever amount to anything real."
		Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"[It] feels like a satirical movie that missed the joke. It doesn't have a plot as much as a collection of rom-com tropes (...) But while 'Marry Me' is silly, poorly made, and inarguably a bad movie, I had dumb fun"
		Ricky Valero Ready Steady Cut	"The excellent writing, the charisma of Jennifer Lopez, and the charm of Owen Wilson make 'Marry Me' the delightful rom-com that will make your heart smile (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Diego Semerene Slant	"A cringe-inducing brand extension for Jennifer Lopez. 'Marry Me' plays out as the logical culmination of a multi-hyphenate icon’s indiscriminate commercial voracity (…) Rating: 0 (out of 4)"
		Caroline Siede AV Club	"'Marry Me' can’t quite figure out what it wants the conflict of its central relationship to be (...) There’s undoubtedly a lot of stuff that works here, although that also makes the stuff that doesn’t more frustrating"
		Peter Gray The AU Review	"Appreciators of the genre and fans of Lopez’s in general should warmly respond to the cuteness of such a film (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"
		James Mottram South China Morning Post	"Although mildly amusing, the pairs’ tribulations are numbingly predictable. The soundtrack is memorable, but not enough to save the movie (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"Its treatment of marriage as a suitable starting point for a relationship is odd, to say the least"
		Jared Mobarak The Film Stage	"The first two-thirds of 'Marry Me' really work because they stay grounded to reality (...) That’s not to say the final third doesn’t fall into the same old, tired traps of forcing conflict where conflict doesn’t need to exist"
		Radheyan Simonpillai Now Toronto	"There are some likeable bits in the corny-ass rom-com so long as you can stomach a preposterous premise and bad music"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Jennifer Lopez's best rom-com in years (...) Sometimes all we want s to watch Jennifer Lopez try and fail to make a decent smoothie in a luxurious Hamptons mansion. And there is nothing wrong with that (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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