Save the Date 2012

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: Save the Date is romantic comedy with aspirations to do something new. That's admirable but it isn't enough. Read more

Rachel Saltz, New York Times: [It] may sound like Sitcomland, but Mr. Mohan's sensibility - visually, comically, in terms of character - is more naturalistic, more Sundance. It's just not particularly sharp. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Smart, funny, sexy, sad and refreshingly devoid of cliches, Save The Date occupies a higher evolutionary plane than most other wedding-themed romantic comedies. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: 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 ... Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A basically plotless, made-for-millennials rom-com ... Read more

Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: You won't be missing much if you can't keep your calendar open for this lightweight comedy. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: 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 more

Ella Taylor, NPR: A merely adequate addition to the raft of romantic comedies for those pushing 30 without adult lives to call their own. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: An easygoing romance you might enjoy, despite the fact that you never need to see it again. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: 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 more

Dan Kois, Slate: Save the Date ... is appealingly ambivalent about whether growing up is really such a great idea. Read more

Sam Adams, Time Out: Date works best as a collection of winsome, unconnected vignettes; its ideal distribution model would be piece by piece on YouTube. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: Calculated quirkiness and cartoonish characterizations make Save the Date shallow enough to be a sitcom pilot. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Yet another unfocused movie about generic relationship quandaries. Read more