The Romantics

The Romantics (2010)

  • 15% of critics liked it
    (33 reviews)

  • 22% of users liked it
    (14,253 ratings)

Over the course of one raucous night at a seaside wedding seven close friends, all members of a tight, eclectic college clique, reconvene to watch two of their own tie the knot. Laura (Katie Holmes) is maid of honor to Lila (Anna Paquin), her golden girl best friend. The two have long rivaled over… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Written By
Galt Niederhoffer
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 10, 2010 Limited
Benaroya Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

    The script fails to establish the likability of any of the main characters, which dulls the sense of urgency during the dramatic moments.

  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe

    What ensues is a couple of days of confession and mild debauchery. It's all sketchy and banal.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    It's possible that Niederhoffer was too close to her novel to stand back from its excesses. She's made a seriously self-indulgent movie about self-indulgent people.

  • Dana Stevens, Slate

    [It] somehow skirts utter loathsomeness by dint of its elegant camerawork and a few finely tuned performances. I'm not suggesting you run out to the theater and see this, but if it comes on cable someday and you have a big pile of laundry to fold...

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    Instead of Rachel Getting Married with an Oscar-nominated Anne Hathaway, we get Galt Niederhoffer's misbegotten, miscast snoozefest with Katie Holmes struggling to prove that there is life as an actress while still being Mrs. Tom Cruise.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Nicki M


    Good cast, particularly the women, but the characters are so generic and selfish it is hard to care about any of them. The up in the air ending doesn't help, either.

  • Letitia L


    Watched half of this on the plane. Character and plot development were both hazy, annoying, pretentious and unconvincing. The best thing I got out of this was watching Josh Duhamel be sexy for an hour and adding the sultry Bedouin Soundclash song, "Brutal Hearts" to my… More

  • Gregory D


    It's an all-star cast crammed into a movie that should've never made it off of the pages of the book and onto the silver screen.

  • Conner R


    While The Romantics might not be for everyone, I thought it was great. In a lot of ways it reminds me of a generational movie, but it doesn't really commit to one specific goal. For being a completely performance and character driven movie, it is really well put together and… More

  • Steven C


    I found there to be a lot to like in "The Romantics." This ensemble drama features a great cast (Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Adam Brody, Malin Akerman, Jeremy Strong, Rebecca Lawernce, Diana Agron, Candice Bergen) who convey a great chemistry. The scenes where… More

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