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100Exquisitely moving story.
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100One of the best films of the year.
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100A drama of rare distinction, and wonderfully funny in the bargain.
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90Wry, richly layered, wonderfully observed Argentine film.
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90Unflaggingly genial and universally funny.
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88It's fresh, funny, biting, fast-paced and reasonably perceptive about people and their problems.
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88Fully realizes its ambitions as a tale about confronting and navigating life's land mines with humor, tenacity, and hope.
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88Turn a potentially unforgettable movie into a broad crowd-pleaser that sustains itself on three acting performances.
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83The film below it is such an entertaining and poignantly bittersweet take-down of a good man's midlife crisis that the translation still works like a charm.
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80Even the digressions are funny.
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80Sweet without being saccharine, sad without being maudlin and funny without being forced.
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75Energetic acting and perky filmmaking help this likable Argentine comedy-drama avoid the sentimentality that intermittently threatens it.
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75Offers a rose-colored picture of life, but one that Campanella makes ring true.
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75It's a wise and endearing little film.
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75Manages to be affectionate without drawing too deeply from a well of sugar and schmaltz.
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75A movie that will wear you out and make you misty even when you don't want to be. It's a gushy, sometimes-maudlin, often-charming movie that highlights the importance of little things.
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70Sensitive and expertly acted crowd-pleaser that isn't above a little broad comedy and a few unabashedly sentimental tears.
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70Crisply agreeable picture.
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70A warm and affectionate Argentine film of wide appeal that is an Academy Award nominee in the foreign-language category.
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70It is a moving and solidly entertaining comedy/drama that should bolster director and co-writer Juan José Campanella's reputation in the United States.
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67Winning and emotionally punchy film.
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67Has an appealing modesty, but director Juan José Campanella works so hard to keep everything soft and winsome and charming that he cushions the understatement into blandness.
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50Has some truly touching and funny moments. But it goes on for too long and bogs down in a surfeit of characters and unnecessary subplots.
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What starts off as a possible Argentine "American Beauty" reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers.
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50Although it's better written and directed than the average Nora Ephron bagatelle, it's easy to imagine Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan slipping into a remake of Son of the Bride.
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50In its details, though, Juan José Campanella's movie works beautifully: The actors are all superb when the florid demands of the story allow them elbowroom.
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50I didn't feel I was wasting my time but I started looking at my watch long before it was over.
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40May be as exhaustive a study of one man's midlife crisis as has ever been brought to the screen. But as the movie lopes along, exhaustive becomes exhausting.
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30The best that can be said of Son Of The Bride is that it's attractively photographed. But, then, so was the Hindenburg explosion, and this packs far less excitement into its two shapeless hours.
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