The Wedding Banquet

Ahn adds an outrageous — if not entirely unpredictable — twist that could have toppled this delicate house of cards. Yet our central quartet hold things together...

Director Andrew Ahn makes the story his own, but also hints at three decades of changing social attitudes for those who remember the original film (or indeed the 1990s).

Technically, Wedding Banquet 2025 is a dog’s dinner...It falls to the charming cast to outshine the flimsy material.

This version of The Wedding Banquet proudly walks down the aisle with confident grace and beauteous determination.

If the original film was about the shame of being gay, this film is about the lingering effects years after the shame subsides.

[T]hough Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet never achieves the comic momentum or emotional depth of Lee’s original, it’s an unfailingly pleasant film filled with endearing characters...

In reimagining Ang Lee's breakthrough 1993 comedy, director Andrew Ahn works with original cowriter James Schamus to cleverly update the topicality while ramping up the plot's farcical entanglements.

This film's focus on its female characters is its strength.

A reimagining more than a remake, [Andrew] Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet is a beautiful, dramatic story that takes a more snapshot-into-life approach over the situational comedy mentality the film opens itself up to.

It is also, quite frankly, a truly charming piece of work that might even out-do the version by the Oscar-winning filmmaker.