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Movie Review: 'The Wedding Banquet' an affable update of '90s rom-com

There’s an easy intimacy and warmth that immediately emanates from Andrew Ahn’s “The Wedding Banquet,� an affable remake of the 1993 Ang Lee film. He crafts a cinematic world that you want to slip into and spend some time; tactile, cozy, populated with witty, real characters, much like his films “Driveways� (2020) and “Fire Island� (2022).

That’s what makes “The Wedding Banquet� a distinctly Andrew Ahn film, despite working with a 30-year-old text that has already been embraced and celebrated.





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