| 91 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Stefan Ulstein
A delightful, inspiring and ultimately redemptive comedy-drama.
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| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
A chick movie for guys that zings and pings like a game of supersonic pinball.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Deeply moral, thoughtful, and amiably humorous.
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| 77 |
Mr. Showbiz
Contains more than a handful of big laughs and a highly charismatic cast that knows how to put them over.
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| 75 |
New York Post
The performances by the attractive ensemble cast are uniformly solid.
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| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
A smooth, often funny, occasionally thoughtful romantic comedy.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
Milton Kent
Say 'I do' to Best Man.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Makes a fine date movie...thanks to its life-affirming view of friendship, love and honor.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Breathes fresh life into old formulas.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Lonnae O'Neal Parker
Tapping into the Zeitgeist of young black professionals starving to see themselves on film, it hits all the right cultural touchstones.
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Everything about the film is familiar except that the twentysomethings are all African American.
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| 70 |
Variety
Overall, this smooth, glossy, enjoyable film showcases an impressive new authorial voice.
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| 70 |
Newsweek
Funny, sentimental, cheerfully bawdy story of a wedding reunion that stirs up a hornet's nest of old loves, lusts and jealousies.
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Another demonstration that current movies about upscale black characters have much more traditional values than ones about catty white teen-agers.
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| 70 |
Rolling Stone
Charmer of a comedy.
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| 70 |
Film.com
A class act, from top to bottom.
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| 63 |
Miami Herald
They're all too old to be considered a black brat pack, but you get a feeling The Best Man will lead to even better.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
Lee's pace is slow enough to try viewers' patience.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
Steve Daly
It's a tribute to the actors' appeal that they can sling this hash and keep our sympathies, but they can't squeeze much drama from pure soap.
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| 55 |
TNT RoughCut
A. Scott Walton
Oversimplifies the concept of unrequited love, and over-romanticizes the notion of everlasting love.
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| 50 |
Time
This agitated comedy could be called "The Big Chillin'" if it had a smidge of the 1983 film's wit and charm.
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| 50 |
LA Weekly
The best parts of the film...are often distractingly slick enough to cover the film's overriding lack of soul.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
A throwback to the slickly entertaining melodramas of Hollywood's golden age.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
Nicely toned.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Has added virtually nothing to two cinema genres with their own prodigious histories: ensemble and black.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
Eric Harrison
Lee's attempt at making a romantic comedy that black audiences can enjoy without having to reimagine themselves as Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
As innocuous as the love songs on its soundtrack.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The glossy ensemble cast is consistently interesting.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Stranded in superficiality, the film is a lifestyle commercial.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
Largely a disappointment.
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