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2009
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2.5
Advertisement Jann Turners shiny, happy crowd pleaser gleans a tiny shred of substance and social relevance from its exploration of racial and class p ..
Av Club
3.0
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Av Club
1.9
Because I dont do it for fame, I dont even care about being famous actually.
3.5
Filled with smart social commentary, romantic wisdom, credible complications and memorable characters.
2.5
Director Jann Turner offers affable characters and an amiable mood, but theres too much plot, and the comic delays start to seem contrived.
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
White Wedding is a terrific road comedy directed robustly by Jann Turner who fluidly melds all the different locales and story elements into a very sa ..
Spirituality And Practice
1.5
Director Turner never musters the requisite manic energy that might get her proceedings off the ground.
Village Voice
2.5
An affable comedy that, unfortunately, has too many characters and subplots for its own good.
New York Post
1.5
This African wedding romp tries like hell to be rambunctious fun, but is weighed down by clichs.
Film Journal International ..
3.1
But its as likely to impart a headache as it is to warm your heart.
Boston
4.0
White Wedding is about connections, and it has the good sense to pull them together in a film thats sweet, inclusive and sunny.
Npr
3.0
White Wedding is an unpretentious comic celebration love and loyalty that crosses all borders.
Coles Mithey
2.5
While its a relief to visit a side of Africa thats not beset by poverty and war, we learn little about the characters.
Stl Today
3.0
An enjoyable film set in South Africa that makes full use of the countrys lingering apartheid tensions and generational divides without ever losing it ..
Ny Times
4.0
At a running time of 1 hour and 49 minutes, Going the Distance is an uneven, painfully contrived and uninspired romantic comedy thats low on laughs an ..
Nyc Movie Guru
5.0
Grenades are launched and body parts separated from the mainland.This violently refreshing entertainment functions equally well as a rowdy political s ..
East Bay Express
3.1
pleasant, intentionally lightweight, South African road movie romance with a sly integrationist political agenda.
Boston Phoenix
3.0
Standard ingredients of predictable nuptial nonsense are given an enjoyable new spin in contemporary, middle class, multiracial, multilingual South Af ..
Film Forward
0.5
The film trivializes real problems in South Africa so I wont feel bad saying that White Wedding makes it seem like the biggest danger facing the post ..
Kpbs
2.5
A cinematic soap opera that shows what can be done with expensive cars a high fashion clothes. Not much.
Monsters And Critics
3.4
At its best when looking at the 21st century trying to get a foothold in a country where a rural landscape, centuries of indigenous tradition and deca ..
D Cist
2.0
...the didactic and unbelievable nature of many of the conversations and events, sometimes emphasized by cross cutting, strains the patience of even t ..
Playback:stl
1.5
The conflict is superficial, easily rectified, but this allows a feel good ending with little collateral damage.
3.0
While the plot is predictable, South Africas White Wedding is still an entertaining comedic film that audiences will find universally appealing.
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