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starstarstarstar Berge Garabedian - JoBlo.com
starstarstar Louis B. Parks - Houston Chronicle
starstarstar Lou Lumenick - NY Post
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Bob Graham - SF Chronicle
starstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstar Eric Harrison - LA Times
starstar Steve Daly - EW
starstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstar Jay Webb - Dallas Morning News
starstar Ernest Hardy - Film.com
star Barbara Shulgasser - Chicago Tribune
star Kevin Courrier - Boxoffice Magazine

A complete success, with plenty of fun, interesting twists and turns, moments of cringing, moments of crying and moments of flashbacks

- Berge Garabedian

It’s safe now to assume that black audiences have developed the same appetite for bland middle-class comedy that white audiences have

- Kevin Courrier

The Best Man

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A writer attending his friends' wedding tries to stop them from reading his first novel, which reveals a secret that could put a halt to their upcoming nuptials. Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau Jr., Terrence Dashon Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Monica Calhoun, Melissa DeSousa, Victoria Dillard. Director: Malcolm D. Lee (1999, R)

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