The Wedding Guest

In the end, the screenplay is the letdown, hewing too closely to generic convention.

Something you will have to seek out, but Michael Winterbottom is always worth seeking out.

More than anything, this wiry thriller works as a homage to the neo-noir genre.

Despite good performances and an interesting milieu, The Wedding Guest doesn't deliver as an exciting genre piece or thought-provoking drama. Michael Winterbottom is a master in many areas but the thriller seems beyond him this time.

The performances are perfectly solid and it always runs smoothly, but the film itself seems to take its leave of us with a shrug.

The Wedding Guest has all the right pieces there but fails to pull together into quite the finished product the high standards of its individual components suggest.

The melting-pot of genres aside, The Wedding Guest is worth a look based on its steady hand, a pair of strong lead performances, and a rousing musical score, but really needed that one thing to bring it all together.

His controversial nudes and other graphic images are here, yet the film itself feels conventional and tepid.

A meditative yet thrilling genre bender.

From the second half on, the film is lost as a tourist without a passport, abandoning the sense of intrigue and mystery to give way to a conventional love story. [Full review in Spanish]