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Jay Carr, Boston Globe: Cinematic home cooking at its most savory. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Monsoon Wedding does what Altman's own The Wedding could not: It allows us to celebrate a questionably blessed occasion without feeling embarrassed or complicit in some traditional scam. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: At heart, the film is not that far removed from a well-written soap opera, but its modern-day Delhi setting and its cultural subtexts make up for the pat familiarity of its situations. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Monsoon Wedding works as a comedy, a melodrama, a giddy romance and a dance film. It's a wonder to behold. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Swirling, loving, and brilliantly, sensuously colorful, Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding energetically celebrates love, family, a culture that comfortably accommodates past and present. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: It sings, it dances, it parties with pride. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A movie to fall in love by and with, a wedding to unite both the two film families and the dazzled multicultural movie audiences who watch them. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An intricate, heartfelt tribute to the enduring power of love. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The movie gains more resonance as it goes along, drawing us in just as large family reunions do. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: An energetic and amusing romantic drama about the power of love to make things whole. Read more
Joshua Rothkopf, Chicago Reader: A late radical shift in tone, from jittery exuberance to ruinous alienation, strikes an impressive contemporary note amid all the obeisance to custom. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Brimming with characters and with life. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: It glows and sings with color and music, and with the humanity of its characters. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The old-world- meets-new mesh is incarnated in the movie's soundtrack, a joyful effusion of disco Bollywood that, by the end of Monsoon Wedding, sent my spirit soaring out of the theater. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: [Nair] seems finally and truly at home in this film, whose prevailing tone is a testament to her comfort and ease. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: It's as if Nair had set herself on a careerlong mission to strip from every storytelling element all the years of manipulation and bad acting that have turned them into cliches, until all that's left is simple emotion, fully experienced. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Nair's stereotype-shattering movie -- like the polymorphous culture it illuminates -- borrows from Bollywood, Hollywood and cinema verite, and comes up with something exuberantly its own. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Monsoon Wedding is eminently disposable, but that's its charm. It stays with you just long enough to make you smile. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Throwing caution to the wind with an invitation to the hedonist in us all, Nair has constructed this motion picture in such a way that even the most cynical curmudgeon with find himself or herself smiling at one time or another. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: One of those joyous films that leaps over national boundaries and celebrates universal human nature. Read more
Charles Taylor, Salon.com: This eye-popping Indian wedding comedy is a guaranteed art-house hit. Too bad it misses all the good jokes. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Nair ... in crafting an enchanting movie about a modern Indian family, fills the screen with blooming marigolds, blossoming romances and sizzling dance scenes thrown in just for the heck of it. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: A teeming ensemble comedy shot fast and cheap but with such gorgeous colors and music and swirling silks that you leave with a feeling of riches, of superabundance. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Nair has succeeded in her mission to capture the energy and essence of a Punjabi family in modern India. Read more
Time Out: The impression of cosmopolitan modern India, of diaspora lives thrown into collision and collusion, is engaging in itself, but the emotional optimism here is the most heartening aspect of this vivacious film. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Filmmakers who can deftly change moods are treasures and even marvels. So, too, is this comedy about mild culture clashing in today's New Delhi. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Nair stuffs the film with dancing, henna, ornamentation, and group song, but her narrative cliches and telegraphed episodes smell of old soap opera. Read more