Save the Date
IFC Films | Release Date: December 14, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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5
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11
Negative:
1
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80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriDec 17, 2012
Save the Date works best when it's getting under your skin, and it does that when it's capturing the queasy halfway point - part sadistic, part bittersweet - of still loving somebody while trying to move on to someone new. It's a kind of subtlety that movies, especially American movies, rarely do well, but this quietly unassuming, secretly brilliant little charmer nails it. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasDec 9, 2012
Save The Date's achievements are modest - it could be funnier and more affecting, and it ends with a shrug - but the film is wise about sibling relationships, the uncertainty of youth, and smaller matters, like the way people relate to each other after a break-up. Read full review
70
MovielineAlison WillmoreDec 14, 2012
Mohan's film may not manage anything out of the ordinary, but it does present a convincingly contemporary depiction of relationships and dating when the goalposts have been moved, or when we're at least trying to pretend they have. Read full review
70
SlateDan KoisDec 13, 2012
Sarah spends her downtime drawing her friends and family in her sketchbook - the art is by Brown - and the figures she makes are not stylized or caricatured but just well-observed, scruffier versions of real life. It's fitting that those same drawings adorn the opening and closing credits of this sweet and sympathetic movie. Read full review
70
TimeMary PolsDec 13, 2012
A slim but likeable little romantic comedy that feels like a sweeter cousin of HBO's Girls. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenDec 14, 2012
Charismatic performers Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie lend the lightweight rom-com Save the Date more than its fair share of watchability. But the film is never truly interesting. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 13, 2012
Mohan should have made a little more effort for us. Another pass at the screenplay probably would have done it. But one gets the sense he's already moved on to the next thing. Read full review
58
IndieWireEric KohnDec 13, 2012
This is still a pretty familiar journey that's easier to pity than hate -- much like Caplan's character. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartDec 14, 2012
While Caplan works well in theory as an antiromantic-comedy heroine, director and co-screenwriter Michael Mohan just doesn't give her enough to do. Read full review
50
The New York TimesRachel SaltzDec 13, 2012
The reunion of Ms. Caplan and Mr. Starr, cast mates on Starz network's "Party Down," seemed intriguing. That series, though, with all the fizz and social comedy that this movie lacks, was a better showcase for them. Read full review
50
NPRElla TaylorDec 13, 2012
Save the Date has the vapid, beige feel of an off-the-peg product made to exploit a niche market rather than a film with something on its mind about what it means to make the jump from youth to adulthood today. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonDec 11, 2012
Unremarkable, thinly sketched characters, many adorned with creative careers or hobbies, populate the romantic dramedy Save the Date, yet another unfocused movie about generic relationship quandaries. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumDec 5, 2012
Everyone in the cast (including Geoffrey Arend, Mark Webber, and Caplan's Party Down colleague Martin Starr) is talented enough to deserve a stronger story line than this. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweDec 4, 2012
Short on both romance and humor. Read full review
50
VarietyJohn AndersonDec 4, 2012
The film features a lead performance by Lizzy Caplan, who might be mistaken here for a graduate of the Zooey Deschanel School of Dramatic Arts. Read full review
40
Time OutSam AdamsDec 11, 2012
Whether it's Caplan and Webber trading goofy dance moves or Brie being perkily OCD-ridden, Date works best as a collection of winsome, unconnected vignettes; its ideal distribution model would be piece by piece on YouTube. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundDec 12, 2012
What's worst about the film is how it appropriates its main character's noncommittal selfishness to support its own quaint, anti-establishment themes. Read full review
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