A wanderer long absent from his homeland, who has found a surrogate family elsewhere, reluctantly returns to discover that the past still has a surprising hold on him. "After the Wedding," from the Danish director Susanne Bier, isn't an especially showy film (although it's luminously photographed, in the post-Bergman Scandinavian tradition), and the story it tells is classic family drama, even if you might not see all its twists coming. What feels at first like a quiet, straightforward picture builds into one of the richest and most satisfying of the year so far, in any genre or any language.
- Andrew O'Hehir, Salon Arts & Entertainment.

In their previous collaborations, director Susanne Bier and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen examine the emotional tsunamis that follow cataclysmic personal events. There is no obvious calamity in After the Wedding, their latest collaboration—at least not one that is initially apparent—but the ripples that roil the characters are no less a tidal wave as the pair creates a poignant and engaging portrait of a family thrown into turmoil after the appearance of an uninvited guest at a wedding.
- Pam Grady, Reel.com.