After the Wedding

[It] doesn't fully trust its own story and tries to dress it up with an air of ominous mystery that winds up undercutting the drama rather than adding to it.

The film's top-notch cast are let down badly enough by the clunking screenplay, but they are entirely defeated by the ethical vacuum at its core.

The Sad Rich White People Movie is one of my favourite genres, and indeed the white people in this English-language remake of Danish film-maker's Susanne Bier's 2006 tearjerker are very sad and very rich.

For all of After the Wedding's narrative twists and turns, there's nothing here that feels close to earth-shaking.

Something about the story feels patly subservient, as if the film had no urgent issue to address but some good actors available to emote on cue.

The mystery has been dialled down, the treacle dialled up, and what we are left with is basically Eat Pray Love 2.

... a well-meaning, well-upholstered drama which makes a decent fist of revising and updating Susanne Bier’s subtitled original, but which lacks the crucial nous that makes for a great picture...delivers more in terms of soap opera than cutting edge drama

After The Wedding is a deeply moving story about acceptance and identity with more than one twist and extraordinary performances from Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore.

Takes aim at the rich one percent though the movie is not as entertaining as the Danish version.

...an exceedingly deliberate endeavor that is, for the most part, unable to wholeheartedly grab (and sustain) the viewers interest and attention...