Movie Review: Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt deserve more than Netflix's ‘Mother of the Bride’
by Lindsey Bahr
May 09, 2024
3 minutes
Romantic comedies are in a destination wedding rut. Perhaps it’s a collective post-COVID wanderlust kicking in, or, more cynically, some combination of tax credits and a place producers want to spend time. But between “ Ticket to Paradise,” “Anyone But You,” “ Shotgun Wedding ” and now Netflix’s “ Mother of the Bride,” the conceit is starting to curdle.
The problem is bigger than the setting, of course. There’s only so much heavy and TikTok (not to mention the sharp ways “White Lotus” has skewered and luxuriated in those worlds).
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