Critic Reviews

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ella Taylor, NPR

  A merely adequate addition to the raft of romantic comedies for those pushing 30 without adult lives to call their own.

• 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.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  An easygoing romance you might enjoy, despite the fact that you never need to see it again.

• Phil Villarreal, COEDMagazine.com

  It takes a lot for straight-to-video, wedding-themed romantic comedy to turn my head, but Save the Date managed the trick by snagging the ridiculously talented and underused Alison Brie (Community) and Lizzy Caplan (Party Down) as its leads.

• Meredith Borders, Badass Digest

  SAVE THE DATE is a mature, refreshingly honest portrait of relationships - between lovers, family members and friends - that never fails to deliver humor and insight.

• Brian Orndorf, Blu-ray.com

  Slumbers through routine conflicts, often in the dullest manner imaginable, refusing the lure of a snappy pace to wallow in poor communication contests that grow intolerable.

• Robert Levin, amNewYork

  There's a finely-tuned sense of how difficult it can be to live life on your own terms, but the film so resolutely adheres to indie conventions it's hard to take seriously.

• Annlee Ellingson, Paste Magazine

  With irrepressibly appealing performers playing flawed characters, he strikes a chord that resonates, even if some of the notes are a bit familiar.

• S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media

  Racy romcom has realistic characters but needs more plot.

• Alison Willmore, Movieline

  Manages its modest pleasures because of its likable cast.

• Chase Whale, Twitch

  A pleasing sophomore feature from Sundance alum Michael Mohan

• Dan Kois, Slate

  Save the Date ... is appealingly ambivalent about whether growing up is really such a great idea.

• 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 ...

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  What's worst about the film is how it appropriates its main character's noncommittal selfishness to support its own quaint, anti-establishment themes.

• Kirk Honeycutt, honeycuttshollywood.com

  'Save the Date' traffics in the most banal situations and whiny characters imaginable.

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