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The Wedding Guest

2018

Michael Winterbottom

Dev Patel, Sidhu Manpreet, Nish Nathwani, Radhika Apte ...

5.5

108

Drama It follows a mysterious, young British Muslim man (Dev Patel) on his journey across Pakistan and India.

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The director's original screenplay feels like a rough draft and the characters' attitudes are almost constantly sour"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"It's told with a no-frills efficiency which, although it wastes little time with story padding, does manage to create a vividly present sense of place."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"'The Wedding Guest' assumes the superficial aspects of an action movie, it is in fact a far subtler enterprise at its core (...) [It does'nt] feel convincing."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Jay and Samira are too blank and inert to hold our attention (...) The rich Indian scenery is the only thing about 'The Wedding Guest' that doesn’t feel generic."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The performances are perfectly solid and it always runs smoothly, but the film itself seems to take its leave of us with a shrug (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"'The Wedding Guest' ultimately just fails to gel into something captivating (...) The ending is baffling but, in some ways, fascinating"
		Jordan Ruimy The Playlist	"Despite Winterbottom's excellent direction (...) and the decent acting from the two leads, the core nuts and bolts of the story fail. [It] disappoints because its mundane screenplay."
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"A movie that places pacing above sense (...) Despite all the bobbing and weaving, Winterbottom knows when to pause the proceedings for a ripe, noirish exchange."
		Tricia Olszewski The Wrap	"Heavy on ambience, light on actual thrills (...) The film’s strongest suit is its sense of place (...) But ultimately, life in the streets can’t make up for the torpor of the story"
		Monica Castillo rogerebert.com	"I liked much more of it than I thought I would (...) It helps that Patel throws himself into the part of a brooding, mysterious romantic leading man (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Vikram Murthi AV Club	"[It] employs a noirlike premise to showcase the sights and sounds of the Indian subcontinent. It plays like a compelling, genre-inflected advertisement for the Indian tourism board"
		Pat Brown Slant	"[It] succeeds in translating the problematics of intercultural conflict into thriller fodder (...) Its characters never feel tortured enough, the situation dire enough, to evoke the existential angst of the noir (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

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